Hi Andrew > Why are double quotes > <http://tiddlywiki.com/dev/#TiddlyWiki%20Coding%20Style%20Guidelines> > preferred over single quotes for string literals? 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. Single quotes don't have to be > escaped so why not use those whenever possible? 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.
Just to answer the “why”: I’ve always defaulted to using double quotes for string literals in code because I find that single quotes appear in literal strings much more often than double quotes (mainly because of the way we re-use the single quote as an apostrophe). Best wishes Jeremy -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWikiDev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywikidev. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywikidev/F9E69677-72BE-4C4E-9926-03608930DD15%40gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
