Re: Back to Basics - Why Use Single Quotes?
| From: | Eric Butera | Date: | Thu, 31 Jul 2008 12:54:40 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Back to Basics - Why Use Single Quotes? | ||
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On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 6:51 PM, Stephen <stephen-d@rogers.com> wrote:
> I have traditionally used double quotes going back to my PASCAL days.
>
> I see many PHP examples using single quotes, and I began to adopt that
> convention.
>
> Even updating existing code.
>
> And I broke some stuff that was doing variable expansion. So I am back to
> using double quotes.
>
> But I wonder, is there any reason to use single quotes?
>
> Stephen
Because sometimes it is nice to do this:
$onclick = ' onclick="..."'
Not having to escape my single tick makes it more readable.