From: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2013 06:47:03 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/86] replace prefixcmp() with has_prefix()
Message-ID: <20131113.074703.1555957018827670255.chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
In-Reply-To: <xmqq7gcdgvmf.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
>
> Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org> writes: 
>>
>> After a look at some languages, Python has "startwith()" and
>> "endswith()", and Java has "startWith()" and "endsWith()".
>>
>> But while we are at it, why not
>> "ends_with()" and "begins_with()"? To me using an underscore seems
>> more consistent with what we are doing in Git.
> 
> Sure.
> 
> I do not think Peff and I were discussing at that level yet to
> debate between camelCase and words_with_underscore.  We were mainly
> talking about what words to be used, which needs to come before the
> final appearance.

Ok.

By the way Ruby has "start_with?" and "end_with?". So the thing we can
discuss, if we go this way are:

	1) with an "s" after the verb or not?
	2) should we use "start" or "begin"?
	3) with an underscore, nothing or camelCase

My preference is:

1) with an "s"
2) "start"
3) underscore

so that gives: starts_with() and ends_with()

Thanks,
Christian.