4 Jan
2002
4 Jan
'02
8:09 a.m.
To some extent, it would depend also on whether you wanted a perfect score
on this week's test. When I was learning English punctuation, I was taught
that the quotation marks come last, even though the terminal punctuation is
not part of the quoted item. Aside from that, I was also taught that two
bits of punctuation never go together, unless the last one is a quotation
mark.
Never having had any interest or training in COBOL I wouldn't guess as to
the correctness of that line of text.
Dick
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bryan Pope" <bpope(a)wordstock.com>
To: <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Friday, January 04, 2002 1:53 PM
Subject: Re: Language and English
>
> Should this tradition continue in an age where fragility of movable type
> is no longer a real concern, and punctuation placed inside quotation
marks
has the real
possibility of confusing meaning?
Example:
At the SCM prompt, type, "SHOW BOOT."
At the SCM prompt, type, "SHOW BOOT".
Which one is correct?
That would depend if this were part of a COBOL program or not.
BRYAN.