> I agree that saying backslash when you mean slash is worse than the converse No it's not. It's just less likely to happen. Most of the people who actually need both slashes and backslashes know the difference. If you don't know, then you probably don't use backslashes.
> particularly given the predominance of users that must work with that crufty old operating system mm, but how many Windows users type their filepaths by hand? Most don't, they browse through the filesystem with graphical thingies (generally Windows Explorer, which doesn't even show the filepath by default). Also, Any relatively modern version of windows accepts / as well as \ in filepaths
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Date: 2010-05-27 00:07 (UTC)No it's not. It's just less likely to happen. Most of the people who actually need both slashes and backslashes know the difference. If you don't know, then you probably don't use backslashes.
> particularly given the predominance of users that must work with that crufty old operating system
mm, but how many Windows users type their filepaths by hand? Most don't, they browse through the filesystem with graphical thingies (generally Windows Explorer, which doesn't even show the filepath by default). Also, Any relatively modern version of windows accepts / as well as \ in filepaths