Another thing that language designers should be very aware of: defaults are extremely important! Most developers will never bother to use anything other than a default even if another choice would better suit the use case.
I mean how many people use an unsigned integer as an index in a looping construct? Yet consider how many times you've needed a negative index into, well, any data structure? But because signed integer is the default that's what usually ends up getting used!
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