Directory Separator Characters
If you look at the organizational chart presented earlier in this hour, you can see that employees are identified simply as “employee” where possible. Because each has a unique path upwards to the president, each has a unique identifier if all components of the path upward are specified.
For example, the rightmost of the four employees could be described as “Employee managed by Jr. Manager 4, managed by Senior Manager 3, managed by Vice-President 2, managed by the President.” Using a single character, instead of “managed by,” can considerably shorten the description: Employee/Jr. Manager 4/Senior Manager 3/Vice-President 2/President. Now consider the same path specified from the very top of the organization downward: ...
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