ASCII

Programmers often use a collection of words to refer to a punctuation character, like ! (which may be called “bang”, “shriek”, “exclamation”, or “exclamation point”). Like Hoon, Jock and Nock utilize a simple standardized pronunciation for ASCII characters, and you should eventually make yourself familiar with these.

Symbol	Name
␣ (space)	ace
\	bas
$	buc
_	cab
%	cen
:	col
,	com
"	doq
.	dot
/	fas
<	gal
␣␣, \0a	gap*,†
>	gar
#	hax
-	hep
{	kel
}	ker
^	ket
+	lus
;	mic
(	pal
&	pam
)	par
@	pat
[	sel
]	ser
~	sig
'	soq
*	tar
`	tic
=	tis
?	wut
!	zap

• *: Jock embeds special characters as escaped hexadecimal literals rather than a code like \n,

• †: Unlike Hoon, Jock does not distinguish single spaces from other forms of whitespace. Jock is completely agnostic to standard whitespace, including new line \n = \0a and horizontal tab \t = \09; in unambiguous cases, whitespace may even be elided (1+2).