Division by Zero

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Tue, Jun 19, 2007 at 03:39:58PM -0400, Bruce Easton wrote:
> Jeff Harrison wrote Tuesday, June 19, 2007 3:10 PM:
> [..]
> > missed it, but "thanks for responding".
> [..]
> > 
> 
> Didn't you mean:
> 
> missed it, but "thanks for responding."

No.  Jeff -- like me, most programmers, and almost all of Britain for the
last 30 years -- uses "rational punctuation", where if a period ends a
sentence, you put it at the end of the sentence.  Not inside a spurious
quotation that happens to be the last thing in the sentence.

In this case, since they were 'scare' quotes, intended (I think) to
imply mild irony mixed with mild sarcasm, there's even less reason to
put the period inside.

We only do that because it typesets better.  (And alas, it does.)

Cheers,
-- jra
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