From: Alex Young <alex@...>
Date: 2007-06-06T16:53:57+09:00
Subject: Re: Help repost to Ruby Dev -- 2 improvements to Ruby Magic

Sunny Hirai wrote:
> This is a proposed solution to simplify magic in Ruby.
> 
> I'd appreciate it if somebody who has post access to 'Ruby-core' or
> 'Ruby-dev' could post this message there. Thank you in advance. If you
> get to read this Matz, thank you for bringing about such an excellent
> language.
<snip on_ and has_ proposal>

I quite like this.  I often feel that there's not quite enough 
consistency in method naming.  It's more a problem in the stdlib than in 
core, though.  The great thing about this specific proposal is that it's 
completely (I think) implementable with aliases, so it needn't break 
anything.

-- 
Alex