Re: [PHP] Back to Basics - Why Use Single Quotes?

On 7/30/08, Stephen <stephen-d@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

But I wonder, is there any reason to use single quotes?

extremely minor performance gains, afaik.

probably moreso when doing $foo["bar"] and $foo['bar']

but i believe it's negligible $foo = 'bar' and $foo = "bar"

sara golemon did some performance tests with actual opcode results here:
http://blog.libssh2.org/index.php?/archives/28-How-long-is-a-piece-of-string.html
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