This variable provides defaults for all character type parameters. The legal values are
base-char
,
lw:simple-char
, and
character
. Its value must only be set via a call to
lw:set-default-character-element-type
.
This is intended mainly for running old 8-bit applications efficiently. If you write for a fat character implementation you should already be aware of these issues, and make some attempt to provide explicit types.
When the compiler does type inferencing it behaves as if this variable was bound to
character
; if you want assumptions about types to be hard-coded into your program, you must supply explicit declarations and type arguments.