In addition to database purposes it is used when you want to EVAL a
string that may have embeded quotes. If they are not escaped the parser
will barf (due to the magic nature of quote? or because they are a
delimitor? This is one of the questions I am interrested in). If it was
simply
Specifically I am interrested in variable interpolation and all the side
effects of double quotes (I consider addslashes/stripslashes to be a
kind of side effect as they are only necessary because of the magic
of double quotes - as I understand it now. But then that is why I am
asking