Forward slash not allowed in query editor

[amalic]

I have to escape forward slashes, I don't understand why.

E.g. this is not a valid query in YASQE

PREFIX : <http://example.com/>
SELECT ?thing WHERE {
  ?thing a :category/subcategory/thing
}

Instead I have to escape forward slashes:

PREFIX : <http://example.com/>
SELECT ?thing WHERE {
  ?thing a :category\/subcategory\/thing
}

I could not find a rationale for this.

[wouterbeek]

@amalic Can you double-check this? AFAIK forward slashes are not allowed in Turtle/SPARQL local names.

[LaurensRietveld]

Closing, as indeed this is not allowed