Great teaching guys. I started turning everything to single quote until I read the potential future problems here.
But would you be using double quotes every where (including Javascript) to keep in all standard? On Sunday, March 16, 2014 10:50:18 AM UTC+8, tamouse wrote: > > It's a similar *concept*, but in no way is it similar in performance > degradation. It is in no way one with a serious enough difference to > matter when there are probably more useful bottlenecks to go after, > but only *after* you profile and collect data. Premature performance > optimisation should be avoided unless there is data already that shows > something will make a difference. Otherwise, the beautiful code mantra > applies: 1. Correct. 2. Pretty. 3. Fast. > > On Sat, Mar 15, 2014 at 9:02 AM, Walter Lee Davis > <wa...@wdstudio.com<javascript:>> > wrote: > > > > On Mar 15, 2014, at 4:09 AM, Gurpreet Luthra wrote: > > > >> RubyMine gives a warning on any string that uses double quotes without > interpolation... So I learnt to use single quotes when no interpolation, > and double quotes only on interpolation. > >> > >> I would prefer using double quotes everywhere.. > >> > >> Regards > >> Gurpreet > > > > I'm ashamed to admit this, but I come from PHP, where there is (or used > to be) a subtle performance hit when using double-quotes. It was explained > to me as being similar to the difference between a .html and .php file to > the Apache server -- the former requires no introspection, just find it and > serve it, while the latter requires careful inspection and delegation. I > tend to use single-quotes unless I want to use interpolation. > > > > Walter > > > >> > >> > >> > >> On 15 March 2014 11:23, tamouse pontiki <tamous...@gmail.com<javascript:>> > wrote: > >> On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 7:01 AM, Dave Aronson > >> <googlegr...@davearonson.com <javascript:>> wrote: > >> > On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 12:52 AM, Brandon > >> > <wong...@gmail.com<javascript:>> > wrote: > >> > > >> >> I try to use single quote first as much as I can because I find the > >> >> readability is better and it takes up less spaces each line. > >> > > >> > I've started doing the opposite. The tiny time savings in the > >> > interpreter from not checking for interpolation, pale in comparison > to > >> > the human-time wasted by "why is it failing to do the interpolation I > >> > added, oh, I didn't convert the quotes" and "why is it blowing up on > >> > this perfectly innocent string, oh, I used a contraction inside > >> > single-quotes so it thinks the string ends there" and whatever other > >> > problems it causes. > >> > >> I can get behind this. My fingers tend to land on single quotes for > >> certain things I have *never* used interpolation on, such as require > >> names. Not that one couldn't, I just haven't (yet). I struggled with > >> watching a senior dev experience this very thing and not feeling I > >> should say anything to them. I finally decided I should. > >> > >> > Meanwhile, though, I'm curious. Can you articulate why you feel > >> > single-quotes have better readability? > >> > >> I'm actually now thinking that the double quote marks out a string > >> more easily visually, and so probably makes it more valuable for that. > >> But not much. > >> > >> -- > >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. > >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > an email to rubyonrails-ta...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. > >> To post to this group, send email to > >> rubyonra...@googlegroups.com<javascript:>. > > >> To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rubyonrails-talk/CAHUC_t8t6DKkpwTvkTgqttVos8Ji6%3DOTWENatM_56cXu4Sc2NA%40mail.gmail.com. > > > >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > >> > >> > >> -- > >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. > >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > an email to rubyonrails-ta...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. > >> To post to this group, send email to > >> rubyonra...@googlegroups.com<javascript:>. > > >> To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rubyonrails-talk/CAHKR60yKeVwfvRTWdLrg64qA5EUTocAG%3Dsno496Gz5AG9CA2pQ%40mail.gmail.com. > > > >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > an email to rubyonrails-ta...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. > > To post to this group, send email to > > rubyonra...@googlegroups.com<javascript:>. > > > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rubyonrails-talk/01E4C7D3-90F2-44CC-AD1E-6F2E38A3938D%40wdstudio.com. > > > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. 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