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If it weren't for the long-running convention of using backslashes as escape characters, postfix backslash would make some kind of sense, at least visually. Fo
by MartinCron 14y ago
If it weren't for the long-running convention of using backslashes as escape characters, postfix backslash would make some kind of sense, at least visually.
Forward slashes are for prefixes, backward slashes are for postfixes. Nice parallel there :)
- Danieru 14y agoNo, they would be perpendicular.
- joe_the_user 14y agoAside from breaking the escaping convention, slashes in code give the page an unfortunate swirly quality. It seems like line other parallel or perpendicular can make the line of the page look it is at a different angle.