Ask HN: How do you quote?

Posted by alecbenzer on Thursday September 29, 2011 @07:05PM
from the ask-hn dept.

In contexts where it doesn't matter what kind of quotes (' vs ") you use, which do you use for strings? Singles seem "cleaner" in some cases but I tend to carry over doubles from use in other languages.

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Re:Ask HN: How do you quote? by AndrewGCook on Thursday September 29, 2011 @07:51PM (#3054855)

Single quotes as much as possible, unless it's a MySQL call or HTML.

I hack in PHP mostly.

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Re:Ask HN: How do you quote? by kragniz on Thursday September 29, 2011 @07:14PM (#3054747)

I always use single quotes if I can, one less keypress. I'm a Pythonist.

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Re:Ask HN: How do you quote? by parthshah on Thursday September 29, 2011 @10:00PM (#3055225)

I personally prefer single quotes. There are some advantages of double quotes like you don't have to close quotes every time you use variable. But I prefer singles because its cleaner and it helps me read my own code better.

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