Proposing that in order to resolve the / vs \ issue in pathnames we introduce the first animated unicode character, a single codepoint that on display alternates between the four frames
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@mcc that’s a Sun boot indicator. That’d confuse me
@mcc if you accept showing all the frames at once, Japanese Windows is 90% of the way there with ¥
@mcc does it rotate in the other direction in RTL text?
@mcc Part of a dastardly plan to introduce windmills everywhere <3
That would make my life very interesting when sending a coworker a screen capture displaying a pathname.
@mcc and where it's used as an escape character, the series is reversed, as a clue...
@mcc I seem to recall an old Mac OS used ; for path delimiters. And I have a niggling memory that TI used a . although they never quite implemented sub-directories on their home computer platform.