Single quotes will become a syntax error in Elixir 2.0. We need to consider two scenarios here: reading code and writing code.
I believe that when someone reads ~c"" for the first time compared to '', the sigil version will be more foreign, while the single quotes is more likely to be assumed to be *something*. I am not sure one experience is necessarily better than the other. However, when it comes to writing, I believe the ~c"" version will be less confusing. There is very little chance someone will write ~c"" meaning a string by mistake. Specially if single quotes raise a syntax error in the future. And they are both learnable syntaxes, you need to learn what they mean. For those who are skeptical because they use single quotes extensively, I have one suggestion: try a change in your project where you replace single quotes by the sigil, give it a week and let us know how it goes. I have done it in a couple of my projects already and I was pleased with the results. Thanks everyone for the feedback so far! -- *José Valim* www.plataformatec.com.br Skype: jv.ptec Founder and Director of R&D -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elixir-lang-core" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to elixir-lang-core+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elixir-lang-core/CAGnRm4JNZ3x9ELz7NQaTNjp_wdMonv0%2BF2H4_Td%2BiGyLjbkHeg%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
