The draft shows Franklin’s heavy printer’s pen crossing out the phrase with backslashes and changing it to “We hold these truths to be self-evident.” ❋ Walter Isaacson (2009)
Apart from the fact that the author meant "backslashes" not "slashes", this makes it obvious. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Here's how Sartalics will work: when you want to send a sarcastic comment, you will simply put your sarcastic sentence between two backslashes and the words will slant to the left, signifying that what you are saying is the opposite of what you mean. ❋ Unknown (2011)
Stupid backslashes (and stupid missing Gawker comment preview button). joelena ❋ Unknown (2009)
For what its worth, there are no backslashes in that URL. ❋ Unknown (2010)
But I see one little problem: when it loads the contents of the textareas from the cookies and echos them to the screen, PHP escapes single quotes, ampersands, backslashes, etc. with backslashes. ❋ Jonathan Aquino (2007)
Stupid backslashes and stupid missing Gawker comment preview button. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Not to mention, the savings from the idiots who insist on referring to them as “backslashes”. ❋ Unknown (2009)
You probably have some mismatched parens or need to escape the parens with backslashes. ❋ Unknown (2008)
No worries, Lessie, I still miss those closing backslashes all the time. wren ❋ Unknown (2008)
Also, it refused to post this once, and seems to have added backslashes before every 'mark for no apparent reason, but fuckit, I'm posting anyway. ❋ Jaxraven (2007)
Miko, for some reason, editing comments in WordPress adds those backslashes in front of the quotes. ❋ Unknown (2006)
I don't know what the proper solution to this problem is though; using backslashes in the string isn't the answer since it won't look right as normal text. ❋ Unknown (2006)
Some Apache distributions will complain if backslashes are used. ❋ Unknown (2003)
The problem is that Windows uses the backslash (\) as the directory separator character but Python uses backslashes to represent escape sequences! ❋ Swaroop, C. H. (2003)
If that happens, try putting backslashes in front of each exclamation point, so that you get an address that looks like this: uunet\! somesite\! othersite\! mybuddy Note that this means you may not be able to respond to such a message by typing a lower-case "r" -- you may get an error message and you'll have to create a brand-new message. ❋ Unknown (1994)
Use forward slashes / instead of backslashes so that LDAP searches can be done without having to use escapes msDFS-NamespaceAnchor: DFS namespace anchor msDFS-Namespacev2: DFS namespace msDFS-Linkv2: ❋ Richpec (2011)
Use forward slashes / instead of backslashes so that LDAP searches can be done without having to use escapes msDFS-LinkSecurityDescriptorv2: Security descriptor of the DFS links's reparse point on the filesystem msDFS-LinkIdentityGUIDv2: To be set only when the link is created. ❋ Richpec (2011)
The catch is that those backslashes escape the forward slashes even though escaping is not required, so it makes it harder to mis-recognize a string as a date value. ❋ Marcelo Lopez Ruiz - MSFT (2011)
