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Re^2: In Love With Double Quotes

by trammell (Priest)
on Aug 08, 2005 at 18:02 UTC ( [id://481954]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re: In Love With Double Quotes
in thread In Love With Double Quotes

I can think of two reasons to use " by default instead of ':
  1. To disambiguate when using lots of `s, if your font isn't clear
  2. Easier to write text that uses contractions, e.g.
    open(my $fh, '/etc/motd') || die "Can't open /etc/motd: $!";
YMMV.

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