The necessity of character and string entities in a programming language

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  • One point to consider is that you can support strings but not characters. My own language Jinx does this, because it's a fairly high-level scripting language, and I didn't see a general need to deal with character types. If you retrieve a single character via an index operator, for instance (meaning a code point, not a char type), it's returned as a string of length one. I had considered various universal character types before hitting on this solution.

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