:) See below.

----- Original Message -----
From: Aleksi Niemel<aleksi.niemela / cinnober.com>
To: ruby-talk ML <ruby-talk / netlab.co.jp>
Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2000 5:14 PM
Subject: [ruby-talk:5489] Regexp#matches


> Would someone object aliasing matches for match in Regexp?
>
> I know I'm free to do it for myself, but I meant for standard Ruby. I'm
not
> sure if this raises some debate about polluting current namespaces, or
that
> maybe there should be aliases for "better" English code consistently in
Ruby
> classes.
>
> I just like to say like following example, and I feel it's looks much
> better. Two letters, such a difference, what a world, what a language :).
>
>    def beautiful_things(line)
>      if @test_re.matches line
>        say_beautiful_things
>      else
>        do_beautiful_things
>      end
>    end
>
> - Aleksi
>

Well, I for one would like that. It's a minor thing, but every little bit
counts...

Hal