From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: grog@lemis.com (Greg 'groggy' Lehey) Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2016 17:06:12 +1000 Subject: [TUHS] Slashes (was: MS-DOS) In-Reply-To: <7c94ef6c9ee764ea94e3e79794c663d9.squirrel@webmail.yaccman.com> References: <1467418363.24560.for-standards-violators@oclsc.org> <20160707050242.GD78278@eureka.lemis.com> <20160707141841.mCXI4Ciil%steffen@sdaoden.eu> <20160707234722.GF78278@eureka.lemis.com> <7c94ef6c9ee764ea94e3e79794c663d9.squirrel@webmail.yaccman.com> Message-ID: <20160708070612.GG78278@eureka.lemis.com> On Thursday, 7 July 2016 at 22:40:47 -0700, scj at yaccman.com wrote: > >> >>>> I would argue "solidus" is closer. >>> >>> SOLIDUS is the Unicode name, too, as is REVERSE SOLIDUS, giving >>> SLASH and BACKSLASH as secondaries. >> >> Finally we have clarity! From now on it's only (without shouting) >> solidus and reverse solidus. No confusion any more, at least not for >> those in the know. > > What fun! Having disposed of # and / and \, anybody want to find > other obscure names for the other operators? Soon we could be as > obscure as Algol 68! That takes real talent. You've made me locate my Report (not Revised Report). It's surprisingly dog-eared. I'll go through it and see what I can find, but for the moment section 2.2 seems appropriate. Greg -- Sent from my desktop computer. Finger grog at FreeBSD.org for PGP public key. See complete headers for address and phone numbers. This message is digitally signed. If your Microsoft mail program reports problems, please read http://lemis.com/broken-MUA -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 181 bytes Desc: not available URL: