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However, the suggested syntax of using the INT and CHAR keywords is unlikely to be used. For the INT keyword, the second parameter represents the number of decimal positions.
It is more likely that a new "BIT" data-type keyword would be used. A possible implementation would be a BIT keyword: BIT(n) or BIT(*UNS:n), where n is the number of bits and the underlying data-type for the bit-field would be unsigned integer. Or BIT(*INT: n), where the underlying data-type is signed integer.
It is unlikely that BIT(*CHAR:n) would be supported. However, if there is a use case for a character-type bit-field, please post an example of how that would be useful in the comments for this Idea.
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