From: dblack@...
Date: 2006-09-27T22:40:29+09:00
Subject: Re: String starts? and ends? methods

Hi --

On Wed, 27 Sep 2006, Devin Mullins wrote:

> 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.

It's a little inconsistent:

   obj.respond_to?   # second person
   obj.is_a?         # third person

But I think second person is the most common.  Or maybe are_a? just
sounded too weird :-)


David

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