Re^2: Coolest way to decode YYYYMMDD?

The question mark is ambiguous in this context but ~~it's proper English style~~ see below. Liked your direct approach. :P

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Re^3: Coolest way to decode YYYYMMDD? by jdporter (Paladin) on Jun 05, 2013 at 04:56 UTC
it's proper English style. Actually... No, it's not. While there is some (little) conflict over when/whether periods & commas should go inside, all authorities agree that "question marks and exclamation points follow [i.e. go outside] closing quotation marks unless they belong within the quoted matter." (Chicago Manual) I reckon we are the only monastery ever to have a dungeon stuffed with 16,000 zombies.	[reply]
Re^4: Coolest way to decode YYYYMMDD? by Your Mother (Archbishop) on Jun 05, 2013 at 13:34 UTC
While I will take issue with Chicago being il capo di tutti authorities, I will take the correction to season the crow of my mistakenly conflating commas and periods with question marks and bangs.	[reply]
Re^5: Coolest way to decode YYYYMMDD? by jdporter (Paladin) on Jun 06, 2013 at 02:59 UTC
I certainly won't argue regarding Chicago. I only selected that version of the rule because it seemed to be the most succinctly stated of all the versions I found. But the point is that there is no disagreement, apparently, among all the style guides on this particular point.	[reply]