Large projects
are generally composed of sub-projects, each using its own directory or
directory structure. If nobody else will ever touch your files and you
use only one computer, there is little to worry about, but this is
rarely the case with a large project.
To improve portability, SWI-Prolog uses the POSIX notation for
filenames, which uses the forward slash (//\\\
Portable code should use prolog_to_os_filename/2
to convert computed paths into system paths when constructing commands
for shell/1
and friends.
