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From: Lars Enderin <lars.enderin@telia.com>
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Subject: Re: Recommendations for an online Introduction to programming using Java
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2013-12-20 12:04, Jukka Lahtinen skrev:
> Chris Riesbeck <Chris.Riesbeck@gmail.com> writes:
>> On 12/18/2013 1:32 PM, Stefan Ram wrote:
>>> Chris Riesbeck <Chris.Riesbeck@gmail.com> writes:
> 
>>>> class called "apples," thereby managing to make three mistakes in one
>>>> short name.
> ...
>>>        3rd) it contains a comma
> 
>> The comma was punctuation for the sentence (as mandated by the grammar
> 
> But you wrote it inside the quotation marks, so it looked like part of
> the name.
> 
Americans tend to put sentence delimiters before a closing ", but I
thought that it did not apply to commas. Anyway, it's a confusing
practice and certainly not applicable to program text.

-- 
Lars Enderin