Neville Holmes wrote: > I don't know what you are proposing to call / and \ > but many have found the "backward/forward slash" > names hard to swallow. In some quarters the / is > called simply "slash" and \ is called "slosh", > a usage which has the advantage of simplicity.
I've always heard them referred to as "slash" (/) and "backslash" (\). Harvey ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm