Is it H T T P : foward slash forward slash, or H T T P : backslash backslash

[vi edit]

Help settle a debate - is "/" a forward slash, or is "\" a forward slash?

I say "/" is a foward slash because it "leans" forward, a person who is putting together an instruction manual says that "\" is a forward slash because the bottom part is "forward".

Who's right?

 

[Tauren]

I agree.

 

[rlism]

yer right, he's wrong

 

[DesiOnline]

you re correct. "/" is the forward slash.

 

[loup garou]

You're right.

 

[nd]

/ is simply slash, or more precisely forward slash. The forward is usually understood.

\ is backslash.

 

[vi edit]

woo! I hate being wrong

 

[Elledan]

I love *NIX for using / in the (file) paths and still don't get why in DOS and Windows you've to use backslashes...

It's easier to type /usr/local/office52/so than D:\Programs\StarOffice\so.exe

But they're correct: / is slash, \ is backslash.

 

[thelanx]

I thought "/" is a forward slash, though I understand why that guy thought it was a backslash, because when you write it you move you pencil down and back. But I tend to look at it as going up and forward, thus I think of it as a forward slash. (Sorry, I'm just blabbering)

 

[StageLeft]

DASH: -
FORWARD SLASH: /
BACKWARD SLASH: \

Booyah, you're right vi_edit. heh Whichever "makes more sense" doesn't matter; common rules dictate that the '/' is a forward slash.

 

[nd]

Gee, can 5 more people please respond? I don't think we know the answer yet!

 

[geno]

What's his reasoning for believing "\" is a Forward Slash?

 

[yakko]

This is a comma ,

 

[Noriaki]

This is a backquote: `
This is a tilde: ~

\ is the backslash becuase MS uses it and MS is backwards J/k~
\ is the backslash because / came first so it was the forward slash!

 

[Boogak]

Neither. It's H T T P : whack whack.

 

[ThisIsMatt]

The way you write them would imply that "/" is a backslash, as you write it from top going back, and "\" a forward slash as you write it from top going forward, but such isn't the case...you just have to look at them as though they're leaning forward "/" and leaning back "\"...

I believe the backslash came about so that you could form \/ to be an "or" and /\ to be an "and" symbol...

 

[aimn]

Ask him to imagine falling forward.......does his head fall forward or his feet?

 

[cavingjan]

Tell him to think about the slash used in division.

 

[palad]

* = asterisk (not asterik, asterix, or asterict)

 

[DesignDawg]

<< , because when you write it you move you pencil down and back. >>

Uhhh....Maybe YOU do it that way. I write it just the opposite.

Ricky
DesignDawg

 

[divinemartyr]

etc means etcetera not ekcetera or excetera, it doesn't even have an x sound in it!

Oh this is about slashes, I forgot. You're right vi

dm

 

[obiwaynekenobi]

and this ! is a Bang

and this @ is a hat.
and this ^ is a carot.

 

[brandc]

&quot;/&quot; is a reverse backslash.