From: Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>
Date: 2006-09-27T22:58:53+09:00
Subject: Re: String starts? and ends? methods

Hi,

In message "Re: String starts? and ends? methods"
    on Wed, 27 Sep 2006 22:40:29 +0900, dblack@wobblini.net writes:

|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 :-)

Right.  "is-a" is a too common phrase among object-oriented
programming.  I wasn't brave enough to rename it "be_a" or something
like it.

							matz.