On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 12:52 AM, Brandon <wongw...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I try to use single quote first as much as I can because I find the > readability is better and it takes up less spaces each line. I've started doing the opposite. The tiny time savings in the interpreter from not checking for interpolation, pale in comparison to the human-time wasted by "why is it failing to do the interpolation I added, oh, I didn't convert the quotes" and "why is it blowing up on this perfectly innocent string, oh, I used a contraction inside single-quotes so it thinks the string ends there" and whatever other problems it causes. If you've got some special case of a frequently run tight loop where shaving off a few microseconds by using single quotes to forestall interpolation-checks might actually help, go for it... but otherwise it's premature optimization. Go ahead and get in the habit of pressing the @#$%^&* shift key, most programmers need all the exercise they can get anyway. ;-) Meanwhile, though, I'm curious. Can you articulate why you feel single-quotes have better readability? I suspect it's a matter of what other languages you're used to, both human and computer. In English, most books enclose most quotes in double-quotes, versus the << and >> used in many mainland-European languages, and whatever else may be used elsewhere. (I am not aware of any that use mainly single-quotes. Anybody?) Prior to Ruby, most of my career was in C, where double-quotes are required for strings -- it threw me a bit when I first got into JavaScript where single-quotes seem to be the predominant style. Also, what do you mean "it takes up less spaces each line"? Either one is a single character. Are you coding in a proportional-width font? If so, I think you'll find it easier to visualize things about your code if you code in monospace. -Dave -- Dave Aronson, FREELANCE SOFTWARE DEVELOPER LOOKING FOR REMOTE CONTRACTS (or temp jobs, or in/near Fairfax VA; see www.Codosaur.us for details); see also www.PullRequestRoulette.com, Blog.Codosaur.us, www.Dare2XL.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rubyonrails-talk/CAHxKQihL9zbp-d1f1Eo%3DBEW5AMm0_GVpMP8xL8qyuNpPnrxG1w%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
