On Dec 21, 2007 8:53 AM, John Siracusa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > FWIW, my reasoning in this area is based on Laziness: single quotes mean I > don't have to scan the string looking for interpolated stuff when reading > code. Double quotes mean I do, and I'm annoyed at the waste of time when > I > scan and find nothing. "Why didn't this guy just use singles here?" It's > (mildly) misleading.
+1, as the kids these days say. I use singles by default for literal strings. I switch to doubles when I need to interpolate, or for text containing apostrophes (though it would be more consistent to use q[...] in the latter case. I use qq and qw all the time, but rarely q for some reason). The single-quoted string literal has become such a habit that I frequently make mistakes in other C-like languages that use the two types of quotation marks to make the character/string distinction. -- Mark J. Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
