Which style of Ruby string quoting do you favour?

Question

Which style of Ruby string quoting do you favour? Up until now I\'ve always used \'single quotes\' unless the string contains certain escape sequences or interp

Answer 1

Like many programmers, I try to be as specific as is practical. This means that I try to make the compiler do as little work as possible by having my code as simple as possible. So for strings, I use the simplest method that suffices for my needs for that string.

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My first simple test of the quality of syntax highlighting provided by a program is to see how well it handles all methods of quoting.