From: Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>
Date: 2008-03-03T13:12:05+09:00
Subject: Re: capitalize and downcase

Hi,

In message "Re: capitalize and downcase"
    on Sat, 1 Mar 2008 22:31:00 +0900, Trans <transfire@gmail.com> writes:

|Currently,
|
|  "the ATeam".capitalize  #=> "The ateam"
|  "the ATeam".sub(/\A(.)/){ $1.upcase }  #=> "The ATeam"
|
|if otherwise,
|
|  "the ATeam".capitalize.downcase  #=> "The ateam"
|  "the ATeam".capitalize  #=> "The ATeam"

I consider the behavior of "capitalize" to be "make the first letter
upper case AND the rest lower case".  I think the "other definition"
may work better for some cases, but not yet sure if it's the
definition.

							matz.