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Funny, I came here to suggest the same thing. It's a good rule.

• akvadrako 10y ago
  It's not a good rule because nobody else uses it, so it's just going to make the code inconsistent when someone else works on it.
  • js8 10y ago
    All good rules started by nobody else using it. Though, in this case, at least three people discovered that rule independently.
    • viraptor 10y ago
      And +1. I thought it's just me. It works quite well in practice and can be applied to many languages. Unfortunately in quite a few of them out prevents interpolation, so it's not a 100% solution.
      • masklinn 10y ago
        > Unfortunately in quite a few of them out prevents interpolation, so it's not a 100% solution. A bigger issue IME is languages (mostly of the C family) where single-quoting is for character literals. Also in Smalltalk comments are double-quoted, but that's a pretty rare language to encounter.
  • jsmeaton 10y ago
    I do. People I work with do. People I mentor do.
  • Grue3 10y ago
    A lot of people use it. That's how I was taught to write Python and that's how I wrote it in several different companies. At my current job we use double-quotes for everything though (for some reason).