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I mainly post on my blog at https://ar.al  (RSS: https://ar.al/index.xml ) and interact on my Mastodon https://mastodon.ar.al . Please follow me there.

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    Aral Balkan‏ @aral 13 Sep 2014

    Is there a good reason Swift uses double quotes instead of single for strings? Why 100% extra effort for such a common token? #ergonomics

    4:49 AM - 13 Sep 2014
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      2. Aral Balkan‏ @aral 13 Sep 2014
        Replying to @aral

        (“ = shift+’ = two keystrokes, ‘ = one keystroke. Think of the billions of times people will write strings and the cumulative extra effort.)

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      3. Martin Pilkington‏ @pilky 13 Sep 2014
        Replying to @aral

        @aral You could also complain about { } : & | ? ! < > + ( ) and many other equally taxing characters

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      4. Aral Balkan‏ @aral 13 Sep 2014
        Replying to @pilky

        @pilky And we should. How much RSI could be saved from their cumulative effects if we considered the ergonomics of our token choices?

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      5. Martin Pilkington‏ @pilky 13 Sep 2014
        Replying to @aral

        @aral First off, if your shift key is causing you that much pain you should probably be resting as you can't avoid it when programming

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      6. Aral Balkan‏ @aral 13 Sep 2014
        Replying to @pilky

        @pilky It’s not causing me pain but that’s not the point. Nothing you’ve mentioned actually gives a good answer to my original question :)

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      2. T045TBR0T‏ @t045tbr0t 13 Sep 2014
        Replying to @aral

        @aral not sure you consider this a "good" reason, but convention. Like C++, where single quotes are used for char, double quotes for string

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      3. Aral Balkan‏ @aral 13 Sep 2014
        Replying to @t045tbr0t

        @t045tbr0t Good point but it’s a new language without a character literal — don’t see that as a good reason :)

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      2. T045TBR0T‏ @t045tbr0t 13 Sep 2014
        Replying to @aral

        @aral also, this may or may not be significant, but not all keyboard layouts allow typing ' without shift. QWERTZ doesn't.

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      3. Aral Balkan‏ @aral 13 Sep 2014
        Replying to @t045tbr0t

        @t045tbr0t That’s a better reason. I know some keyboard layouts (I’m looking at you Norwegian keyboards) are terrible for programming.

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      4. T045TBR0T‏ @t045tbr0t 13 Sep 2014
        Replying to @aral

        @aral there's another discussion to be had here - if typing is a bottleneck while programming, something's going wrong

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      1. Maya Posch‏ @MayaPosch 13 Sep 2014
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        @aral Hah, try using a German keyboard layout for programming in any language. It's a total RSI nightmare :)

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      1. Alex Reid  🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈‏ @alexcreid 13 Sep 2014
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        @aral It is weird (probably because of the C/C++ heritage). Allowing mixing of single- and double-quoted strings like Python would be nice.

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      2. Joachim‏ @cocoafrog 13 Sep 2014
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        @aral 1. depends in Keyboard Layout. E.g. [ and ] is actually really bad on a German keyboard. 2.Easy to confuse with accents? 3. Convention

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      3. Joachim‏ @cocoafrog 13 Sep 2014
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        @aral convention as in: probably most languages use double quotes (including Objective-C) for strings so programmers are more used to it

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      1. fabrice ファビリセ‏ @fabricetdc 13 Sep 2014
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        @aral because Americans are fat enough. Efforts are good. #irony

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      1. Koen Metsu‏ @koenmetsu 13 Sep 2014
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        @aral double quotes are just next to single quotes on my keyboard, not on yours?

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      1. Martin Pilkington‏ @pilky 13 Sep 2014
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        @aral Because most languages use double quotes and a shift key isn't that taxing a thing to press?

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      1. Jared  🚽 Earle‏ @jearle 13 Sep 2014
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        @aral because Taylor Swift knows … wait, you’re not talking about @SwiftOnSecurity

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