From: Rich Kilmer <rich@...>
Date: 2002-04-01T13:37:53+09:00
Subject: RE: String#begins?(s)

What about:

String#starts_with?(s)

and the corresponding

String#ends_with?(s)

-rich

-----Original Message-----
From: Yukihiro Matsumoto [mailto:matz@ruby-lang.org] 
Sent: Sunday, March 31, 2002 10:32 PM
To: ruby-talk ML
Subject: Re: String#begins?(s)

Hi,

In message "String#begins?(s)"
    on 02/04/01, Tim Sutherland <timsuth@ihug.co.nz> writes:

|class String
|    def begins?(s)
|        self[0...(s.size)] == s
|    end
|end
|
|Worthwhile?

I don't like the name "begins?".  It's not obvious.
I don't like names like "beginWith?" or "begin_with?" neither.

							matz.
p.s.
If you can find a good name, you've accomplished 90% of the job.