From: Nikolai Weibull <now@...>
Date: 2012-04-25T05:01:54+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:44602] Re: [ruby-trunk - Feature #5555][Rejected] rename #include? to #includes?

On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 15:47, Roger Pack <rogerdpack2@gmail.com> wrote:
>> The basic naming for methods in standard class libraries are:
>>
>> * use basic form (include not includes)
>> * put question mark for predicates
>> * put bang mark for "dangerous" version of methods
>
> Speaking of which, could we get an Array#shift!
> It always confuses me how that one defies the rule.

There���s no non-dangerous version of Array#shift, so it doesn���t defy the rules.