On Saturday, June 25, 2016 at 8:04:15 PM UTC+2, Andrew wrote:
>
> Why are double quotes 
> <http://tiddlywiki.com/dev/#TiddlyWiki%20Coding%20Style%20Guidelines> 
> preferred over single quotes for string literals?
>

It's just a convention, which is probably active since TWclassic, and 
discussing it may cause a "religious war" ;)
 

> It means that every time there is a double quote character it takes up 
> twice the space in the core or in plugins because it has to be escaped. 
>

It's exactly the same problem and argument with 'I don\'t want to escape 
double quotes'. If I do understand your argument right. 
 

> Single quotes don't have to be escaped so why not use those whenever 
> possible? 
>

See my example above. also see: 
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/String
 

> I'm just asking because I'm finding it reduces size, increases speed and 
> the only exception I can find to using single over double is triple.
>

I don't understand this statement. ... I think nobody (except the browser 
programmers) really know, what browsers do with our strings. 
<https://blog.mozilla.org/javascript/2014/07/21/slimmer-and-faster-javascript-strings-in-firefox/>
 
So trying to optimize speed and memory usage with using ' over " is wasting 
time. 

just some thoughts
-mario


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