From: Vincent Fourmond <vincent.fourmond@9online.fr>
Date: 2006-09-27T22:38:46+09:00
Subject: Re: String starts? and ends? methods

Dirk Meijer wrote:
> to be honest, i don't really think this is that useful.
> what wrong with
> 
> string=~/^start/
> string=~/end$/
> 
> this seems to be self-explanatory enough.

  For the Regexp-friendly users... In my opinion, a part of Ruby's
coolness is that you have quite a lot of ways to say similar things,
which leaves you to chose the most readable for the code at hand (and
for your own eyes).

  I don't expect having another method for String will cause a huge
performance drop ;-)... And I definitely think some code will look
easier to read with that.

  Cheers !

	Vince