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Eh, many programming languages use double quotes for strings, and single quotes for singular characters. Languages that can use single quotes for strings that

• ciupicri 8y ago
  Also Pascal and SQL.
• samatman 8y ago
  Lua, and there are others. I favor double quotes for this same reason even when single quotes are allowed. I'd like «guillemets» but that's going to have to be self-serve...
  • spc476 8y ago
    I use single quotes when the string in question is used like an enumeration: set_color('black','white') And double quotes for strings meant to be read by a human: print("Hello there. How are you?") And an example with both forms: syslog('warning',"unit %s spin rate %f too low",u,rate) For me, it's an indication of how I expect the string to be used.
• Inityx 8y ago
  And even then, Perl and Ruby (heck, even Bash) have a semantic difference between double- and single-quoted strings. The only other popular general-purpose languages where they're synonymous are PHP, JavaScript, and Lua.
  • ComputerGuru 8y ago
    >The only other popular general-purpose languages where they're synonymous are PHP, JavaScript, and Lua. PHP does treat single and double quotes differently. Contents of single quotes strings are not parsed for variable substitution.
• ComputerGuru 8y ago
  Don’t forget VimL, the language that insanely decided to use double quotes as a “start of comment” indicator, then went back and gave them special meaning based on their position so they either signal the start of a comment or a string.
  • prawl 8y ago
    A different comment character could have been chosen, but this affects nothing. It's not insane.
• zestyping 8y ago
  And JavaScript!