Eric Butera wrote:
On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 6:51 PM, Stephen <stephen-d@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I have traditionally used double quotes going back to my PASCAL days.
I see many PHP examples using single quotes, and I began to adopt that
convention.
Even updating existing code.
And I broke some stuff that was doing variable expansion. So I am back to
using double quotes.
But I wonder, is there any reason to use single quotes?
Stephen
Because sometimes it is nice to do this:
$onclick = ' onclick="..."'
Not having to escape my single tick makes it more readable.
Now *that's* a good reason... anything that means fewer \'s or \"s.
I often go for HEREDOC syntax if the backslashes start taking over - readability
is much more important to me than nanoseconds of performance.
There's also the case where you might want literal $s in your string:
e.g.
$foo = 'You need to pay $dollars...';
compared with
$foo = "You need to pay \$dollars...";
Again, it depends on you view of backslashes.
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