From: "boris_stitnicky (Boris Stitnicky)" <boris@...>
Date: 2013-10-22T12:39:24+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:57959] [ruby-trunk - Bug #9041] Please add alias	"starts_with?" to class String


Issue #9041 has been updated by boris_stitnicky (Boris Stitnicky).


@naruse: Thanks for responding and explaining. Yet, 3rd person forms
#starts_with?, #ends_with?, #exists? etc. seem to be preferred in other
computer langugages.

@shevegen: As you probably know, ActiveSupport provides those aliases:

require 'active_support/core_ext/string/starts_ends_with'
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Bug #9041: Please add alias "starts_with?" to class String
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/9041#change-42535

Author: shevegen (markus heiler)
Status: Rejected
Priority: Low
Assignee: 
Category: 
Target version: 
ruby -v: all
Backport: 1.9.3: UNKNOWN, 2.0.0: UNKNOWN


Hi.

We can do these:

FileUtils.touch 'test' # => ["test"]
File.exist? 'test'     # => true
File.exists? 'test'    # => true
'test'.start_with? 't' # => true

However, we can not use .starts_with?

'test'.starts_with? 't' NoMethodError: undefined method `starts_with?' for "test":String

I propose that, for proper english, and consistency with the duality of File.exist? and File.exists?
to also add alias starts_with? so that we can use proper english.

The proper english way to query such a question would be:

"Does the word abc start with an a?"
and in short form as factual, affirmative statement:
"abc starts with a."
whereas this here would be not proper english:
"abc start with a."


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