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Fire-Dragon-DoL on Aug 27, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Responsible Monkeypatching in Ruby

Because Ruby has been consistent: there is no method starting with S.

Array has `include?`, Regexp has `match?` and String has `match?` and `start_with?`.

This is consistent: there is no S.

Now when I'm in a codebase, depeneding on ActiveSupport and which parts of it are included, the consistency is now missing. Is it with S or without S?

And what methods DO have the S version and which one do not?

joelbluminator on Aug 27, 2021 [–]

It's a fair point about consistency but its still bad naming. AS accepts both so I don't see a problem. I do hope Ruby will eventually deprecate and rename it to includes? , starts_with? etc.

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