On quotation and punctuation

If you read my previous post, you may have objected to my punctuation of quotations, namely putting any following punctuation mark outside the closing quotation mark. This is intentional, and not a mistake on my part.

Conventional grammar, of course, would have you punctuate quotations "like this," which is to say, including any trailing punctuation inside the quotes. Confusingly enough, you do this regardless of whether the punctuation is part of the including document, as in that example, or part of the quotation ("What?" he asked). As part of being contrary, and as an extension of my coder personality, I follow a far more logical pattern, in which anything in quotations is the literal text being quoted, and any punctuation that makes up part of my document coming outside the quotes. This strikes me as far more sensible, and is especially a must when discussing code or grammar questions such as this one, where details of punctuation are significant, and ambiguity intolerable.