Niall Douglas:
> That was a former iteration of the C committee.
>
> If you presented a modified C compiler with reasonably designed built-in
> string object to the current C committee, I think you'd have a very high
> chance of success. Everybody recognises that strings need doing right,
> and a native built-in object is widely seen as the correct approach.

Can you provide more info? Why a sequence of unsigned integers suddenly
need a built-in type?