[m-dev.] Make `character' obsolete in favour of `char' in next release?

[Peter Ross]

On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 02:36:36PM +1000, Fergus Henderson wrote:
> On 05-Oct-2004, Ralph Becket <rafe at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> > Any takers?
> 
> I would support this.  The whole char vs character thing arose
> because NU-Prolog's type checker used "character".
> 
I agree also.

I suggest however placing some simple code in the system that changes
the warning when the undefined type is "character", or placing in
builtin.m the equivalence between "char" and "character".
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