From: Phlip <phlip2005@...>
Date: 2007-09-26T09:22:39+09:00
Subject: Re: wrong File::SEPARATOR ?

Ronald Fischer wrote:

> On my Ruby 1.8.5 under Windows, I have:

    C:> ruby -e 'puts File::SEPARATOR'
    /

> Shouldn't it output '\' instead?

Not sure if this is answered yet, but Windows accepts /. That prevents 
endless hacks in all the legacy code that Windows must support.

Now all we need is a Notepad.exe that, between getting every encoding in the 
world correct, will respectfully display a lowly \n correctly...

-- 
  Phlip