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I wonder why the author chose to use backslash instead of any other character. Backslash is used for escaping in nearly every other language.
by Pistos2 17y ago
I wonder why the author chose to use backslash instead of any other character. Backslash is used for escaping in nearly every other language.
- dkersten 17y agoAccording to the newly added FAQ: backslashes were chosen for a purely pragmatic reason; on virutally all keyboards, backslashes are very easy to type (requiring only a single keystroke). This is a handy property for backslashes to have because in ANI, you'll be typing them a lot!