Why does Ruby use respond_to? instead of responds_to?

Question

I\'m curious why Ruby\'s introspection related method to check if an object responds to a method is respond_to? instead of responds_to?

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Answer 1

Matz prefers second person singular or third person plural:

"responds_to?" probably makes more sense to English speakers than "respond_to?".

Maybe. But I'm Japanese. Ruby is not English. It's the basic naming rule to avoid third person singular form in the standard libraries.

  you = Human.new
  if you.respond_to?(:knock)
    ...
  end