Are long-suffix and unsigned-suffix needed when declaring long literals in C++?

Question

I have some ancient memories of writing C code like:

long value = 0;

in the bad old Win16 days and ending up with value being

Answer 1

But this notation is required for wchar_t strings, like

L"I am a wchar_t string."

and for long long integers, too...

I guess this is something that should be removed, it isn't useful (the type is declared with its name and not with some suffix), but still supported in C++11.

Hm.