echo php variable and html in WordPress

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I am playing around with wordpress and wondering, why this line of code works: 

echo "<a href='....'>$name</a>";

I learned it this way:

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echo "<a href='....'>".$name."</a>";

Is there something special defined in WP to make this work?

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  1. In PHP, there are two types of String.

    The first type uses the single quotes, as follows.

    $val = 'this is a simple string';

    The second type is as follows:

    $val = "This is a not so simple string";

    With the latter type, any variables included in the string will be resolved to their values, so:

    $val = "Hello there";

$message = 'Dave says $val';
// Literally equals: Dave says $val

$message2 = "Dave says $val";
// Literally equals: Dave says Hello there

    There are lots of other differences, which you can read about here.