[ferret_users] trailing slash in symbol

[Marco van Hulten <Marco.Hulten@xxxxxx>]

Hello Ferretters,
 
I noticed that a trailing slash is ignored for in a string variable,
except when doubly escaping it:
 
yes? define symbol ss = /abc/
yes? sh symb ss
SS = "/abc"
yes? define symbol ss = /abc\/\/
yes? sh symb ss
SS = "/abc/"
 
Is there a special reason for this?
 
—Marco