Re: [s-d] Re: [auto] EugeneMeidinger submits p20

[Joel Uckelman <uckelman@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thus spake pete+bnomic@xxxxxxxxxxxxx:
> Daniel Lepage <dpl33@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> > That convention always bugged me. There's no good reason to put the
> > period before the quotes anymore. Someday I'll want to create a
> > section whose title includes a period at the end, and I'll have to
> > include many extra words to do so >:(
> 
> I tend to just use periods outside quotes anyway, since it's generally
> clearer. But I work at a place that prints formal things such as
> wedding invitations, so I have to use the more formal rules there on
> things like our web site.

Being a logician, the periods-inside-quotes convention has always struck me 
as syntactically wrongheaded, since it creates an unnecessary ambiguity. It 
leaves me with no way to distinguish "foo" from "foo." when they occur at 
the ends of sentences.


-- 
J.


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