character "/". Common names include: (forward) slash; stroke;
ITU-T: slant; oblique stroke. Rare: diagonal; solidus; over; slak; virgule;
INTERCAL: slat.
Commonly used as the division
operator in programming, and to separate the components in
Unix pathnames, and hence also in
URLs. Also used to delimit regular expressions in several languages.
(1996-09-24)