From: "Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@...>
Date: 2002-04-02T05:02:58+09:00
Subject: Re: String#begins?(s)

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Corbin" <dcorbin@imperitek.com>
To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
Sent: Monday, April 01, 2002 1:55 PM
Subject: Re: String#begins?(s)


> I'm not vary multilingual, but I'm sure arabic/hebrew speaking 
> programmers would get confused by left/right methods, and perhaps it 
> doesn't make sense for langauages designed to be vertically written.

Interesting thought... but if they know Ruby, they spend
at least part of their time thinking in a horizontal, left-to-
right fashion...

Hal Fulton