Re: Back to Basics - Why Use Single Quotes?
| From: | Robert Cummings | Date: | Fri, 01 Aug 2008 19:41:08 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Back to Basics - Why Use Single Quotes? | ||
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On Fri, 2008-08-01 at 15:36 -0400, Eric Butera wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 4:18 AM, Peter Ford <pete@justcroft.com> wrote:
> >
> > Now *that's* a good reason... anything that means fewer \'s or \"s.
> > I often go for HEREDOC syntax if the backslashes start taking over -
> > readability is much more important to me than nanoseconds of performance.
> >
> > There's also the case where you might want literal $s in your string:
> > e.g.
> > $foo = 'You need to pay $dollars...';
> >
> > compared with
> >
> > $foo = "You need to pay \$dollars...";
> >
> > Again, it depends on you view of backslashes.
>
>
> You know, I'd use HEREDOC if I could have the closing line indented.
> I always think it looks so goofy to have it on the first of a line
> inside a method in a class. When things get really weird I tend to
> use (s)printf.
*lol* Yeah, I hate how HEREDOC ruins my nice formatting too.
Cheers,
Rob.
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