FINAL PERIOD • DICTIONARY ONE.COM • Definition of Final period

... life closed with the last triumph decreed to him for his victories in Spain. The third and final period had covered but one year when his assassins ...

— Ave Roma Immortalis, Vol. 1 - Studies from the Chronicles of Rome • Francis Marion Crawford

... groks", then hackers generally prefer to write: "Jim is going", "Bill runs", and "Spock groks". This is incorrect according to standard American usage (which would put the continuation commas and the final period inside the string quotes); however, it is counter-intuitive to hackers to mutilate literal strings with characters that don't belong in them. Given the sorts of examples that can come up in discussions of programming, American-style quoting can even be grossly ...

— THE JARGON FILE, VERSION 2.9.10