From: Jakub Travnik <j.travnik@...>
Date: 2002-04-02T03:30:24+09:00
Subject: Re: String#begins?(s)

Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:
> 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.
> 

I have been using #prefix? and #suffix? since Jul 19 2001 in
JTTui ( http://klokan.sh.cvut.cz/~jtra/ ) file jtutil.rb.

Jakub Travnik
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