[jlarocco]

> That's just such an obviously brain-damaged idea.

Is it, though? "Every character except '/' because it's the directory delimiter" seems pretty straight forward to me...

> There's not a single rational use case for it, yet it breaks nearly every text-based tool you could possibly imagine...

You don't have a use case, but that doesn't mean nobody else has one.

And as far as "text-based tools" go, their developers should RTFM. I'm fairly sure UNIX existed before almost all of them, and it's accepted new lines all along.