(Prescriptionists would say that the period goes inside the quotes, which is a syntax error for most devs.)
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(Descriptionists on the other hand say "Well if programmers choose to write that way because of cultural drift well that's English, deal.")
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it just seems so UNTIDY to close the sentence with a quote and not a period
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I'm a dev and I wrote two books. My attitude is "if this is wrong, then I don't want to be right".

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You'll get a lot of false positives that way. This is standard style in most British publications: https://www.dailywritingtips.com/punctuation-errors-american-and-british-quotation-marks/ …
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Also, can tell because their third example word is "baz."
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A countdown of my fave ways: 4) Nested parentheticals 3) obsessive indents 2) CamelCase || snake_case 1) || && && 0) 0-based numbering
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the period should go outside the quotes because you aren't quoting the period!!!!
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Unless you are, in which case you need two periods? Take for instance, "This is a sentence.".
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