From: Mark Hubbart <discord@...>
Date: 2004-06-11T02:57:57+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Ruby/Interface

On Jun 10, 2004, at 8:33 AM, Sean O'Dell wrote:

> On Thursday 10 June 2004 01:28, Jean-Hugues ROBERT wrote:
>> At 04:55 10/06/2004 +0900, you wrote:
>>
>> Should be implement?() vs implements?() I believe.
>> See include?() for example.
>> That is a nice Ruby idiom.
>
> It's not proper English, but perhaps implement? is more "Ruby."

After being annoyed with what looked like improper English in
all those #foo? methods, I noticed that you could read them as, say, 
"does foo include?" or "does foo respond_to?" etc... They make sense 
that way, and are proper English, inasmuch as any programming construct 
is proper English :)

cheers,
Mark