> What about specifying endiannes also, or would that be too low-level > to even consider? Currently I don't have any examples for where it > might even be used... Literals are the wrong place to put that; they represent values, not storage. Endianness should generally not be visible at the language level; were you need to specify it, it will usually be an attribute/property of the data source you're reading from or the sink you're writing to.
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