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    The fact you can doesn't mean you should, necessarily. I think that making intentions clear makes the code more readable for everybody. Omitting quotes makes it less readable to my eyes. Commented Nov 10, 2008 at 14:57
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    a) Did you see anything in my answer about what you should or should not do? (This 4 x 4 is unlikely to show up in real Perl code verbatim anyway.) b) If it is less readable to you, you are paying attention to the wrong things (the forms of the operands, rather than the operator). Commented Nov 11, 2008 at 2:12
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    a) Did you see anything in my comment about whether you said what one should or should not do? b) When you deal with many languages on almost a daily basis, every little bit helps. Using quotes is totally clear an unambiguous in (almost) any language, omitting them means one extra mental step to take. Commented Jul 21, 2009 at 5:25