Re: String quoting (was: Re: Alternative to ~= for inequality?)

[Rena <hyperhacker@...>]

On 2013-02-08 1:13 PM, "Enrico Colombini" <erix@erix.it> wrote:
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> On 08/02/2013 18.56, steve donovan wrote:
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>> Being a lazy guy, I pick the single quotes since they're
>> easier to type, but other people are much more organized ;)
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> I refute the accusation of being much more organized, but I usually reserve " for printable strings (e.g. the 'user side') and ' for program strings such as patterns, identifiers, etc.
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> (this can also be useful when searching for strings to be localized 'after the fact')
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> --
>   Enrico
>

One of the few things I liked about PHP was that single and double quotes had different meanings: variable interpolation would be performed only on double quoted strings.