choice between quotes thoughts
David Bolen
db3l at fitlinxx.com
Thu Aug 9 16:52:37 EDT 2001
Roman Suzi <rnd at onego.ru> writes:
> I wonder if there are idiomatic differences between quotes, but
> who knows? (apart from cases mentioned in the Style Guide)
For me, although initially it was most common to use " due to C/C++ as
an immediate predecessor language, I've moved over to using ' as the
preferred quote - except in mostly two cases:
* Strings containing ' (for which the most typical reason for me is
writing SQL strings).
* Triple quoted strings (especially doc strings).
I think at least part of it is that ' is less dense than " when
viewing source, so it tends to stay out of the way a little bit more
for me. And that's probably the same reason I still use " for the
triple quoted strings, as its density makes it easier to envision that
as a single token.
I hadn't thought about it until now, but back when I was a heavy Rexx
(same possibilities) user I ended up in the same state, so I must like
it this way :-)
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