From: Todd Benson <caduceass@...>
Date: 2009-08-19T10:05:30+09:00
Subject: Re: start_with? Does someone need a grammar lesson?

On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 4:03 PM, Dominik Honnef<dominikho@gmx.net> wrote:
> 7stud -- <bbxx789_05ss@yahoo.com> writes:
>
>
>> if mystring.start_with?("bad grammar")
>>
>> I'm hesitant to use start_with?() in my code.  It makes me look
>> uneducated. :(
>
> mystring.start_with? (or include? or respond_to? and so on) are best
> liked when read and understood as a question:
>
> do you [mystring] start with "bad grammar"?

Nah, it's a common artifact of moving east asian grammar to western.
Besides that, you shouldn't try to reinvent by changing the wheel.
People obviously think that proper would be "a single object" "starts
with".  But if you think of that simple object for what it is, a bunch
of bytes, than the discrepancy goes away.  It's plural vs. singular.
Don't really care.

Todd