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On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 8:21 PM, Rena <hyperhacker@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

Ditto for Boo, the second-greatest programming language to come from
Brazil.  (Not surprisingly, MoonScript has followed that tradition of
double quotes allowing interpolation which goes all the way back to
Unix shell conventions.)

I do like the double-quote for _public_ strings idea, it's a question
of keeping consistent.