| ▲ | bn-l 10 months ago |
| Same here. It encourages deep indentation and at the same time makes the indents harder to quickly parse. Also single bloody quotes. Why? |
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| ▲ | KPGv2 10 months ago | parent | next [-] |
| > Also single bloody quotes. Why? Because double quotes requires two keystrokes. Single quotes requires one. The only defense of double quotes is an appeal to history. |
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| ▲ | Timon3 10 months ago | parent [-] | | Not everyone uses the same keyboard you do. With a German layout it's much easier for me to type double quotes. That's not to say everyone should use them, but reality is more nuanced than you make it seem. |
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| ▲ | brabel 10 months ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I can see why people may take issue with tabs VS spaces, that's as old a debate as programming languages themselves. But taking issue with single quotes is just on another level of bike shedding! WTF is wrong with single quotes??? |
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| ▲ | hamandcheese 10 months ago | parent | next [-] | | Single quotes are quite a common English punctuation character. Particularly in the strings I tend to hardcode in programs, it is way more likely that I need to write a single quote than I do a double quote. When that happens, I have to escape the quote (if the language even allows escapes in single quoted strings) or change the whole string to double quotes. Because typing a single quote will break parsing, it's also hard for tooling to assist. If I put a single quote unescaped, the auto formatter will probably barf. | |
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| ▲ | rizky05 10 months ago | parent | prev [-] |
| I prefer backtick. |
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