From: Robert Dober <robert.dober@...>
Date: 2006-09-30T04:51:26+09:00
Subject: Re: String starts? and ends? methods

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On 9/29/06, George <none@none.com> wrote:
>
> Rick DeNatale wrote:
> > We wouldn't say
> >
> > Give me my nine-iron, if does my bag have my nine-iron.


In your current form I'd rather use a eight!

>
> > 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)


I always found that one troubeling, but  I do not consider that a problem,
especially in the light that Matz is Japanese as you pointed ou below, we
too often forget that.

> 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!
>
> Amen, and as I said before, after 20 years of Ruby programming I just
mastered method_alias, or was it alias_method (long live ri ;).
Robert

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