Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 16:34:07 EDT
From: rfb1 (Robert F. Barnes, Jr.)
Subject: Re: Gravity Thirteen
To: tf01 (TIMOTHY FALCONER)

and still a third remark (directed to the "by the way"): but is a space any more "controlcodish", than something that *is* a symbol? each can be seen (in certain contexts) as an instruction to do a certain thing, and so are like control codes. *but* a) it seems that the command invoked by each character-as-control-code is just to output a certain something (or *not* to output something, as a special case) which is just the corresponding symbol. so control codes seem to be parasitic upon symbols, but not the other way around.