From: Peter Booth <pbooth@...>
Date: 2009-08-17T13:29:29+09:00
Subject: Re: start_with?  Does someone need a grammar lesson?

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You can fix the English grammar in a number of ways. For example:

define a function does

	does mystring.start_with?("bad grammar")

or, even worse, rename your variable

	if my_characters.start_with?("good grammar")  #  i'm choosing  
grammatical correctness by breaking the semantics

Remember, "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds,  
adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines."

English grammar is sufficiently arbitrary, and fluid, to be a poor  
indicator of programming language quality.

Peter


On Aug 16, 2009, at 11:49 PM, 7stud -- wrote:

> String#start_with?-------------------------------
>
>     str.start_with?([prefix]+)   => true or false
>
>     From Ruby 1.9.1
> ------------------------------------------------
>     Returns true if _str_ starts with the prefix given.
>
>
> Whoever wrote the docs doesn't:
>
> Returns true if _str_ **starts with** the prefix given.  I find it so
> jarring to read:
>
> if mystring.start_with?("bad grammar")
>
> I'm hesitant to use start_with?() in my code.  It makes me look
> uneducated. :(
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>


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