diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index e8a7d82811..2915c1ee7e 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+Thu Jul 17 18:50:26 2003  Yukihiro Matsumoto  <matz@ruby-lang.org>
+
+	* re.c (match_captures): rename from "groups".
+
 Thu Jul 17 17:57:32 2003  Yukihiro Matsumoto  <matz@ruby-lang.org>
 
 	* eval.c (rb_clear_cache_by_class): check both klass and origin.
diff --git a/re.c b/re.c
index c7103c8717..16b4c5e295 100644
--- a/re.c
+++ b/re.c
@@ -945,7 +945,7 @@ match_to_a(match)
 }
 
 static VALUE
-match_groups(match)
+match_captures(match)
     VALUE match;
 {
     return match_array(match, 1);
@@ -1771,7 +1771,7 @@ Init_Regexp()
     rb_define_method(rb_cMatch, "end", match_end, 1);
     rb_define_method(rb_cMatch, "to_a", match_to_a, 0);
     rb_define_method(rb_cMatch, "[]", match_aref, -1);
-    rb_define_method(rb_cMatch, "groups", match_groups, 0);
+    rb_define_method(rb_cMatch, "captures", match_captures, 0);
     rb_define_method(rb_cMatch, "select", match_select, -1);
     rb_define_method(rb_cMatch, "values_at", match_values_at, -1);
     rb_define_method(rb_cMatch, "pre_match", rb_reg_match_pre, 0);