From: Nobuyoshi Nakada <nobu@...>
Date: 2008-09-25T20:30:23+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:18898] Re: [ruby-cvs:26761] Ruby:r19543 (trunk): Not a typo. The name is better plural. Better English and more consistent with the other assertions.

Hi,

At Thu, 25 Sep 2008 17:37:53 +0900,
Ryan Davis wrote in [ruby-core:18890]:
> > But inconsistent with other methods and the Ruby convention.
> 
> ruby convention is a fair reason... but I'm a bit of a grammar nazi  
> and it has always been a bad eyesore to see these things.

Then shouldn't it be assert_to_raise if `raise' ia a verb?

> > At least, such incompatibility isn't announced well and
> > beginning to croak suddenly is very inconvenient.
> 
> I'm just giving a deprecation warning, not croaking...

Hmmm, sorry, it's misused.  Croak in Perl aborts scripts, not
just warn.

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Nobu Nakada