From: George <none@...>
Date: 2006-09-30T00:40:17+09:00
Subject: Re: String starts? and ends? methods

Rick DeNatale wrote:
> We wouldn't say
> 
> Give me my nine-iron, if does my bag have my nine-iron.
> 
> In situ which of these sounds better to the English speaker?
> 
> do_something if a.start_with?('foo')
> do_something if a.respond_to?(:fred)
> do_something if a.include?(:joe)
> 
> or
> 
> do_something if a.starts_with?('foo')
> do_something if a.responds_to?(:fred)
> do_something if a.includes?(:joe)

This is probably a consequence of Matz being Japanese. We should be grateful that he used English at 
all!