Feature #19859
Updated by nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada) 10 months ago
In English "start" is paired with "finish" and "begin" is paired with "end". While "start" and "begin", and "finish" and "end" have similar meanings they are not the same. Hence it should be: `String#begin_with?` String#begin_with? & `String#end_with?` String#end_with? or maybe `String#start_with?` String#start_with? & `String#finish_with?` String#finish_with? or both; but not certainly not `String#start_with?` String#start_with? & `String#end_with?` String#end_with? as it is presently. Further, I would argue that it should be only `String#begin_with?` String#begin_with? & `String#end_with?` String#end_with? because "start" and "finish" imply temporality and strings don't have that connotation. Hence the solution here for me would be to: `/String#start_with?/String#begin_with?/`. /String#start_with?/String#begin_with?/. If however there is a desire to retain interface compatibility and to adhere to TMTOWTDI, then introduce both: `String#begin_with?` String#begin_with? and `String#finish_with?` String#finish_with?