From: Daniel N Date: 2006-10-14T12:27:23+09:00 Subject: Re: [Adv] Ruby Tutorial for beginners ------=_Part_74698_6029133.1160796440323 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline On 10/14/06, Kevin Olemoh wrote: > > One quick question in one of his examples he states that using single > quotes for strings is more efficient, why is this? > > I believe the theory goes that using single quotes means that there is no interperlation required, and therefore less work for the interpereter. Thus faster. This was discussed here a few of weeks ago, with some benchmarks that seemed to indicate that there really isn't much difference between the two. I'm not sure that the thread ended up reaching a conclusion though. ------=_Part_74698_6029133.1160796440323--