From: "Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@...>
Date: 2002-04-02T04:20:16+09:00
Subject: Re: String#begins?(s)

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Albert L. Wagner" <alwagner@uark.edu>
To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
Sent: Monday, April 01, 2002 12:42 PM
Subject: Re: String#begins?(s)


> This is an unbelievably silly thread. April first, right...?

Heh. But it started before Apr 1.  :)

My $0.02:

1. I don't really like names that have camelCase 
or underscore_style. In user code, it's OK; but in
the core, I think these are "rare to nonexistent."
(I say this without looking. I'm sure there are SOME.)

2. Some variant of the left/right concept is probably
the best IMO (as Rich and Guy suggested).

3. David thinks the term "prefix" is odd. But it's intuitive
*to me* because of thinking I did long ago relating to
instantaneously decodable codes, wherein my texbook
said that one code could not be the "prefix" of another,
e.g., "011" and "01101" could not both be valid codes.

4. In any case, as Albert says, it's a moderately silly 
thread. The *proper* way IMO is for a newbie to learn to 
do this simple test via a simple regular expression.

5. Obligatory Apr1 Remark: Of course, I vote for the
obvious names "port?" and "starboard?"...

Hal Fulton