Wednesday, July 05, 2006
Backslash? Forwardslash? Whichslash?

I still can't ever remember which one is back slash and which one is forward. In this post, I'm  trying to figure out just why that is and how I might be able to help myself with this silly but annoying problem [read more ...]

[A DevLife post]

Just Rambling
Wednesday, July 05, 2006 4:35:03 PM (Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)  #     |  Comments [3]  | 
Wednesday, July 05, 2006 7:39:20 PM (Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)
The best way I know of to remember them is that a forward-slash leans forward, a back-slash leans backwards:

/ - leaning forward
\ - leaning back
James Avery
Thursday, July 06, 2006 4:57:35 AM (Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)
Arg, evil backslash, fie on it. Does it help to remember that the division symbol is a forward slash? (x = y / z) (For all values of z other than 0, haha.)

I had a little post on dys-slash-ia a while back, value of which is that it points to a piece by the actual, real guy who foisted the backslash on us:

http://mikepope.com/blog/DisplayBlog.aspx?permalink=1077
mike
Sunday, July 09, 2006 5:27:53 PM (Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)
Like James said, i picture a little guy standing in the wind. Feet planted he either falls forwards or backwards, but like a weeble-wooble he never quite makes it to the ground.
Scott Cate
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