From: Phrogz <phrogz@...>
Date: 2007-11-07T13:55:46+09:00
Subject: Re: Escaping characters

On Nov 6, 6:28 pm, Pradeep Elankumaran <skyfallsin...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> In Ruby, there is a distinction between strings that are between  
> double quotes and strings in single quotes.
> "\\" escapes the necessary characters, and also allows substitution.  
> ex: "#{name}" => "Pradeep"
> '\\' does not do any of these. ex: '#{name}' => '#{name}'
>
> Single-quoted strings are faster than double-quoted strings.

I know it seems like that should be the case, but can you provide any
proof that it is? In all the tests I've done, I've never found single-
quoted strings to be any bit measurably faster than double-quoted.