From: Yukihiro Matsumoto Date: 2006-09-27T23:33:07+09:00 Subject: Re: String starts? and ends? methods Hi, In message "Re: String starts? and ends? methods" on Wed, 27 Sep 2006 23:05:44 +0900, Jonas Hartmann writes: |but what about puralization? As a convention, Ruby method names use plain verb with singular form, with several exceptions, e.g. is_a? etc. So we use start_with? not starts_with? matz.