On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 7:01 AM, Dave Aronson <googlegroups2d...@davearonson.com> wrote: > 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.
I can get behind this. My fingers tend to land on single quotes for certain things I have *never* used interpolation on, such as require names. Not that one couldn't, I just haven't (yet). I struggled with watching a senior dev experience this very thing and not feeling I should say anything to them. I finally decided I should. > Meanwhile, though, I'm curious. Can you articulate why you feel > single-quotes have better readability? I'm actually now thinking that the double quote marks out a string more easily visually, and so probably makes it more valuable for that. But not much. -- 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/CAHUC_t8t6DKkpwTvkTgqttVos8Ji6%3DOTWENatM_56cXu4Sc2NA%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
