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Aral Balkan
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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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    1. 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

      10 replies 4 retweets 3 likes
    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.)

      5 replies 1 retweet 0 likes
    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?

      6 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
    5. Martin Pilkington‏ @pilky 13 Sep 2014
      Replying to @aral

      @aral Finally, the use of a shift key is not going to cause RSI where there aren't already other far more significant contributing factors

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      Aral Balkan‏ @aral 13 Sep 2014
      Replying to @pilky

      @pilky (Cognitive/mechanical/etc. Every little detail matters.) :)

      5:03 AM - 13 Sep 2014
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        2. Martin Pilkington‏ @pilky 13 Sep 2014
          Replying to @aral

          @aral So all our method and variable names should be one character, as to make them longer is ergonomically bad?

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

          @pilky Not at all. But *in this specific instance* — “ vs ‘ — I cannot see a reason to choose the option with 100% extra mechanical load.

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        4. Joachim‏ @cocoafrog 13 Sep 2014
          Replying to @aral

          @aral @pilky 100% is an exaggeration. ;-) Yes for that one character. But a tiny bit when compared to the total number of characters typed

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        5. Aral Balkan‏ @aral 13 Sep 2014
          Replying to @cocoafrog

          @cocoafrog @pilky 1 keystroke vs 2 keystrokes. Maths. :)

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        6. Joachim‏ @cocoafrog 13 Sep 2014
          Replying to @aral

          @aral @pilky yes the maths work out As does the math for many other statistics. But it's still an exaggeration by taking it out of context;)

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

          @aral It also means you don't have to escape any apostrophes in strings, which you would in single quoted text

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

          @pilky Unless you use proper curly quotes in your strings instead of typewriter quotes :)

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

          @aral Because searching around the character palette for proper curly quotes is much faster than shift-' ;)

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

          @aral If you wanted a good reason, double quotes stand out more than single ones, making them easier to see while reading

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

          @pilky * citation needed ;-)

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

          @aral Eyes are a good enough citation in this case ;)

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