From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2005-04-16T10:54:19+09:00
Subject: Re: Knight's Travails (#27)

(Thinking about this some more...)

On Apr 15, 2005, at 7:50 PM, Pe�a, Botp wrote:

> in prgg, one generally does not know what is contained in x 
> (otherwise, one
> would not have to ask for it); so, how does one know what char (code) 
> is in
> x?

You type "x" when you want a string literal.  That is not related to 
variable x, naturally.  Similarly, :x is a symbol literal, again not 
related to any variable x.  That leaves us with ?x being a simple 
character literal.  Make sense?

James Edward Gray II