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Comment Re:The answer is (Score 2, Insightful) 656

"And your periods and commas belong inside the quotation marks."

Not if you're a programmer -- see the hackers' dictionary. If the period wasn't in your quote, it would be inaccurate to quote it.

For example, telling someone that a command is "cd ../." would be more confusing if you didn't realise that the final period was a full-stop, and unrelated to the thing you need to type.

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