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I never liked the idea of changing the content of a quote for any reason. Let's say I go on the record saying something like this: > Code reviews are worthles

I never liked the idea of changing the content of a quote for any reason. Let's say I go on the record saying something like this: > Code reviews are worthless when it comes to those nasty little runtime corner cases that crop up now and again. I sure as hell wouldn't want you writing the following: > Mr. So-and-so was quoted today as saying "Code reviews are worthless." Punctuation isn't just there for decoration. It has meaning. Injecting full stops into quotes in places they don't actually exist not only doesn't make any logical sense, it can actually change the meaning of the quote in very significant ways.

curun1r 11y ago
Moreover, in the tech world, these punctuation characters often have actual technical meanings and being precise can be very important. For example, consider the following punctuations of a quote: - "Resolve the DNS record for example.com.". - "Resolve the DNS record for example.com". - "Resolve the DNS record for example.com." Only the first and second quotes are unambiguous. The third, which is supposedly correct, is unable to differentiate between a meaningful trailing period, which in DNS means to not use search domains, and the period inserted to end the sentence. While these issues are rare, logical punctuation solves this problem.