From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2000-10-13T13:00:11+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:5493] Re: Regexp#matches

Hi,
       
In message "[ruby-talk:5489] Regexp#matches"
    on 00/10/13, Aleksi Niemel� <aleksi.niemela@cinnober.com> writes:

|Would someone object aliasing matches for match in Regexp?

Well, I personally use plain form of nouns for method names, for
example `exist?' not 'exists?'.  The standard names reflect this
policy.  Reason?  a) my tongue Japanese does not have this syntax
(third person, singular); b) Ruby is not English.  You are free to
define this by yourself, and I think it's possible that the standard
library 'English' may provide these aliases.

							matz.