Hello all, I recently encountered an issue <https://github.com/JuliaLang/Tk.jl/issues/62#issuecomment-55392934> with path separators on Windows and was wondering why backslashes were chosen over slashes in Julia Base. Windows usually interprets "/" just as well as "\", especially if the paths are quoted. Something like
shell> pushd "C:/users" works fine, although shell> pushd C:/users does not, which might prove problematic (but then again, paths for cmd.exe should be quoted anyways because of the bad escaping of " "). One might consider changing the separator to a slash which might reduce compatibility issues as well as (hopefully) make most of the special @windows_only cases in base/path.jl obsolete. As a bonus, the regexps wouldn't look all that crazy anymore :) So, my question is: Are there problems with that approach? And if I wanted to try to implement that, how would I go about it? As far as I can see, Julia needs to be recompiled for changes in base to take effect, correct? Oh, btw, thanks for this great language. It's really nice to see Julia come along and get better and better by every release! :)
