From: Devin Mullins Date: 2006-09-27T22:29:51+09:00 Subject: Re: String starts? and ends? methods Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote: > Makes sense. It was just honoring the origin (this case Python). > Since they are young (I just added it last week), it is fairly easy to > change the names. Any opinion? My English-fu has me prefer starts_with? to start_with?, but general Ruby convention seems to be not to conjugate the verbs, so I'll just vote what everybody else is voting.