What is the difference between a ' and a " ?

[Troy Rollins]

On Jun 26, 2004, at 12:33 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote:

> > Oh man, that would be great... I thought maybe too much to ask.
>
> Working with explicitVars on should catch those circumstances, as 
> unquoted strings will be assumed to be vars and if not declared will 
> throw a compilation error.

To be honest, I don't prefer to declare my variables unless there scope 
is something more than handler level, that is too much like RealBasic. 
I just want all unquoted strings to be variables, or throw an error. It 
is the unquoted string literals that kill me. Those, and the quoted 
variable names (which are required on occasion) you get both of those 
instances in a single script and you wonder if gravity is going to give 
out too.

Personally, I quote my strings. But if something goes wrong in my 
coding (I introduce a bug), Rev is just as happy to keep on going as 
though it was all good... and then turn around and throw me an unquoted 
literal exception of some kind which is completely bogus, in a 
different script which doesn't have anything of the kind.

Transcript is sort of the wild west of coding, anything goes, there are 
few rules to adhere to, but lots of bear traps laying around that will 
catch you when you least expect it. But... it's powerful too. No 
question there.

Makes the wild west a great place to visit, but I don't tend to like 
staying too long. I prefer the stability of something on say... version 
10.  ;-)
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Troy
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