Add more primitive types of different sizes.

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Fast and flexible language exploring partial evaluation, context-sensitive parsing, and metaprogramming. Compiles JIT or AOT to native code.

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Basil currently only supports word-size types, and has a small list of primitives: int, bool, symbol, and string. Since Basil is working towards being a viable systems-programming language, it would probably be best to support a variety of other common primitives, including:

8, 16, and 32-bit signed integer types.
32 and 64-bit floating point numbers.
raw pointers.

Type coercion between some of these types would be useful, but not entirely necessary for the 0.2 update. We can revisit it later.

basilTeam / basil

Add more primitive types of different sizes. #6

28 Floats and doubles are included as primitives in the new rewrite, so they'll be included in 1.0.

29 Varying integer sizes are a little less essential...tentatively scheduling these for 1.1, but they may be moved into 1.0 if it's not too difficult.

30 Raw pointer types are maybe the least essential. Scheduling these for 1.1, but we could stand to push these back further.