Making assumptions about the other person that set you up to argue against whatever position that entails is not what it means to be charitable. It is the opposite. It is uncharitable. (At least to the other person; it's charitable, perhaps, to you.)
> neither post has any purpose
Wrong. It has the same purpose now as it did from the beginning—reminding/alerting people to the fact that using backslashes in paths just because you're talking about Windows is not necessary.
Using one of the correct path separators for the OS isn't necessary? And someone using one of the correct path separators needs a reminder that other path separtors exist?
There was no more purpose to that than reminding someone that they could have used UNC paths, URIs, 8.3 short names, ...
> Using one of the correct path separators for the OS isn't necessary?
Using backslash specifically is unnecessary.
There's no point wasting more time here from this point onward. You either refuse to understand, or you understand and refuse to show it. It's not productive to believe that's not going to change.
Making assumptions about the other person that set you up to argue against whatever position that entails is not what it means to be charitable. It is the opposite. It is uncharitable. (At least to the other person; it's charitable, perhaps, to you.)
> neither post has any purpose
Wrong. It has the same purpose now as it did from the beginning—reminding/alerting people to the fact that using backslashes in paths just because you're talking about Windows is not necessary.