While you're certainly not wrong, the phrasing of the question suggests that the asker didn't know the history of the final dot, and was asking the way they did

While you're certainly not wrong, the phrasing of the question suggests that the asker didn't know the history of the final dot, and was asking the way they did only because they didn't know what to ask, thinking its purpose was to provide some effect rather than being historically (and currently) the correct FQDM.