Re: Optimization in coding style

One quick glance of an experienced eye allowed to understand the blurred
and almost unreadable Geoff Muldoon's handwriting:

> My preference is to use single quotes unless you are certain that the
> string will surely have an apostrophe, and then decide whether it will
> be better to escape the apostrophe or switch to double quotes.

Agreed.

>> Double quotes are needed, of course in other cases:
>> "Frankly my dear, your name is ${nameOfTheUser}!"
>
> No they're not, and my strongly preferred style is to clearly string
> escape and concatenate variables. For starters in my editor it is far
> superior for syntax highlighting and debugging, even if it is more
> typing:
>
> $string = 'My "nickname" is '.$myNickName.', what\'s yours?';
>
Hmmm... I'd say that it's a definetely less readable than:
$string="My \"nickname\" is $myNickName, what's yours?";

and if you can use single quotes to surround "nickname":
$string="My 'nickname' is $myNickName, what's yours?";

I really like to write readable code. Saves time and hassle.

Besides, don't know about yours, but my editor highlights the variables
surrounded by double-quotes as viariables.

Cheers
Mike
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