Trivial Question About Quotes

[philmasterplus]

When JavaScripting, I've often seen strings wrapped with single-
quotes:
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var language = 'English';
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However, I prefer double-quotes due to my experience with C++:
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var language = "English";
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Is there a problem with this? Why is everyone else, including those
who write popular libraries like Prototype.js, using single-quotes? I
know that it's best to stick to a single style when you code(that is,
if your coding style isn't horrible), but is using double-quotes
horrible? Or is it just because you want to use double-quotes inside
strings? :
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var example = 'She says, "Hello, world!"';
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I know this is a trivial question, but please give me as much
details as possible...^^;;

[Bjoern Hoehrmann]

Re: Trivial Question About Quotes

* philmasterplus wrote in comp.lang.javas cript:

When JavaScripting, I've often seen strings wrapped with single-
>quotes:
>----------------------------------------------------------------
>var language = 'English';
>----------------------------------------------------------------
>
However, I prefer double-quotes due to my experience with C++:
>----------------------------------------------------------------
>var language = "English";
>----------------------------------------------------------------
>
Is there a problem with this? Why is everyone else, including those
>who write popular libraries like Prototype.js, using single-quotes?

There can be a variety of reasons. For example, on some keyboards the
apostrophe is easier to enter (e.g., you might not have to press shift);
in some programming languages variables and most escaped sequences are
interpolated and recognized in "-literals but not in '-literals; quot is
easily confused with two apos characters in some environments; some may
have a convention like `" for markup attributes, ' for script code` so
they avoid misnesting them in onclick="...'.. .'..." attributes, or their
native language might be using some kind of single quote mark so they
are more used to them. And so on.
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