I remember being taught interpunct and always thought it was wrong.  But even after years of studying programming, sometimes I just feel it’s ‘correct’ to enclose that little period in the quotes. And I don’t find it abhorrent, just strange. But old habits die hard, no matter how illogical.  

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I think the best way to look at it is as a choice.

truly

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As some of you may have noticed, I subscribe to the BE practice (I am reticent to use the word "rule" when refering to ostensibly stylistic preferences) of placing the comma and period after the quotation mark. I place other punctuations inside, i.e., the question mark, exclamation point, and periods and commas when part of the original text. I also place a comma after the last item in a list.

See, contra http://www.bartleby.com/68/40/4940.html:

"A key problem with quotation marks is which other marks of punctuation go inside the closing quotation mark(s) and which belong outside. In the United States, most stylebooks and most editors follow these rules: periods and commas belong inside, colons and semicolons outside. Other marks: question mark, dash, and exclamation point, for example, go inside when they belong with the quoted material, outside when they belong to the main sentence. British editorial conventions differ."

See also [url]http://www.bartleby.com/116/406.html
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Thanks, Dude.V

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another informative page

http://webster.commnet.edu/grammar/marks/quotation.htmV

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I think the best way to look at it is as a choice. V

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truly

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