PSPP-BUG: [patch #5236] Case Data type

[Ben Pfaff]

Follow-up Comment #1, patch #5236 (project pspp):

So, I basically like the idea.  But:

* "datum" is a bad name IMO.  It's too generic.  "value" is bad enough. 
Maybe "string_data" or "char_data" or "value_byte" or "value_octet" or... 
Actually I don't like any of those either.  The name should ideally indicate
that it's related to what goes in a "union value" and that it's 8 bits in
size and it's opaque.  Anyone got any ideas?

* I think that its definition should be in value.h, because it's intimately
related to what goes in a "union value".  But I'm willing to be persuaded
otherwise--do you have an argument why it should be in a new header of its
own?

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