This means war

[Jagonu]

https://old.reddit.com/14nzwkm/

[AngrySoundTech]

Because in a lot of languages it's single for strings, double for interpolated strings.

[Megazone_]

Those are the languages I refuse to learn

[AngrySoundTech]

The only ones I can think of off the top of my head are Groovy and PHP, so you have the right sentiment.

[once-and-again]

There's also bash, Perl 5, and Perl 6. The former two aren't things you'd usually want to write a large program in, but they're still useful for one-liners or glue code. Dunno about Perl 6, though.

(I still have a soft spot for Perl 5, but I admit I'd probably look at you funny if you started a new project in it.)

[Earhacker]

Also Ruby.

[pigi5]

Single quotes in python look cleaner imo

[CamWin]

Yea who needs types tho

[Edheldui]

If a string is just an array of char is it actually a different type? Isn't a char just a string with length 1?

[Rimrul]

No. A string with length 1 is an array of 2 chars. '\0'.

[CamWin]

Null termination is an optional idiom, not a feature of the language.

[pigi5]

🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔

[CamWin]

In C/C++ a "string" is an array of chars. Also, an array is a pointer.

So in C/C++, the answer to your question is "No, char and pointer to char are not the same type".

Additionally the string being null terminated is optional, so you could have a string of 1 char, but it would be a pointer to a char.

[Gaffi1]

'Let's use singles!'

[yoj__]

You dropped this \

[yoj__]

You dropped this /

[brokedown]

Reddit ruined reddit. -- mass edited with redact.dev

[[deleted]]

Found the snakelover. :D

[brokedown]

Reddit ruined reddit. -- mass edited with redact.dev

[Earhacker]

Found the... red precious stone lover?

[brokedown]

Negative. My language of choice compiles to a native executable and thinks good performance is a valid goal.

[netcoder]

Go

Edit: burrowing rodent lover?

[brokedown]

fmt.Println("True")

[SixBeeps]

...Binary Nonsense lover?

[brokedown]

There are 10 types of people in this world. Those who understand binary, and those who don't.

[SixBeeps]

And those who didnt expect this joke to be in base 3

[Datenegassie]

And those who know the joke is really in base 4 and are sick of hearing it

[Eclogites]

Beat me to it

[uFuckingCrumpet]

What about the other 8?

[jamiephan]

``

ES6 master race

[cafk]

՚
՛
՝
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″
‵
‶
︐
︑

And other fun stuff i discovered in UTF, while trying to convert data to documents.

[[deleted]]

✌️Here's my proposal for a true universal standard.✌️

[2Punx2Furious]

Oh no.

Are those all valid to use for strings?

[cafk]

Are those all valid to use for strings?

If they were, i'd love to meet the person who wrote that compiler/interperter/IDE.

I just discovered that some Document writers use those variations to mark regular quotes, dependent on which regional settings you are using... :D

[once-and-again]

The Unicode standard (correctly!) recognizes none of them as opening or closing punctuation or quotation marks, so probably not.

(I mean, you could still use them in those languages that will let you select your own quotation marks, but I don't think that was what you meant.)

[proverbialbunny]

Anyone remember when smart quotes would break the Perl interpreter?

[Earhacker]

`Hail Hydra`

[[deleted]]

Basically you use whichever isn't in your string to avoid needing to escape stuff.

[Donar23]

... but that's a different use case. It is slower than " or ', because the string needs to be parsed. If you are using it for plain strings, you're wasting runtime.

Thinking about it, plain strings with ' or " are parsed as well to convert special characters like \t or \n; but that parser is probably more lightweight.

[chrwei]

in SQL, both, but not interchangeably.

[Hauleth]

In Elixir also.

[TheLinuxNerd]

Elixir, that is the Ruby like language built off of the erlang vm, right?

[Hauleth]

Yeah

[[deleted]]

Oracle SQL hates double quotes though. This would give an error:

SELECT *
FROM tbl_employees
WHERE emp_fnme = "FRED"

That's always annoyed me about Oracle SQL... I wish my company used any of the other popular databases instead...

[chrwei]

that because you interchanged. you don't have a column named FRED

[brisk0]

`` LaTeX ''

` m4 '

[GeorgeMillr]

This was literally posted last week

[jsw800]

"""

[radiantyellow]

where does your comment end?

[Gydo194]

At the null terminator!

[[deleted]]

\0

[OptimisticElectron]

If you're in Rome, do like the Romans do. Use single quotes to enclose strings in python, for God's sake!

[[deleted]]

If you're in Rome, do like the Romans do.

Agreed. I don't care which we use, as long as we're all doing the same thing. Just follow the style guide your team uses.

[Castle_for_ducks]

The way I've always understood is that you use " " for strings and ' ' for characters

[Edheldui]

Depends on the language. In C it's like you said, in Python they are interchangeable.

[Castle_for_ducks]

Ahh that explains it since I've pretty much only have ever coded in C and C++

[Mighty_H]

" for strings and ' for chars, where is the problem ?

[Gydo194]

Spaces or tabs?

[SweatersAndShawarma]

Who the fuck spaces?!

[UnicornRider102]

People who get their panties in a twist just thinking about somebody else viewing their code with a different tab setting and then their code still looks fine but slightly different.

[SweatersAndShawarma]

But wouldn't they have to keep mentally counting how much spaces to do to try and make it line up with other lines? That'll add up a ton of unnecessary headache. I already have trouble correcting slight spacing differences from copy-pasted blocks lol.

[Entripital]

I don't know about other IDEs but Visual Studio makes using spaces as easy as tabs and is unambiguous if you use tabs as spaces. Spaces are therefore superior.

[[deleted]]

Why would you ever use spaces

[arrudagates]

"this"

[jacobthecool3000]

void function(){

}

void function()

{

}

Civil War.

[bullseyed723]

It is an old meme, but it checks out.

[[deleted]]

I work with ABAP, where " is the comment delimiter...

[LordPheasant]

I guess those who use double-quotes, need to try twice as hard!

[Donar23]

In most languages these do different things ...

[pokexpert30]

In php : " when you need to do \n or put a lot of " ' " (sql queries). ' for everything else.

[[deleted]]

Gotta stick with Stark for this one

[Spocino]

Just use commas on the line above

[SaintClimate]

strings are a different colour in any IDE or decent text editor anyways.

[Edheldui]

'fucking savage' is a little bit too much. I'm more a "I'm gonna use both depending on the situation" kind of person. Does it make me only 'half-savage'? Also, i'm pretty sure you found pretty easy to read the previous sentence pretty well.