I feel naming inconsistency with beginswith.

[bicycle1885]

We have the beginswith function to check whether a string begins with a given prefix.
This is good, I often use it. But its name looks inconsistent compared to other function names in Julia.

To list some, other functions use "start" in their name:

• seekstart
• start
• start_timer

and no other functions use the word "begin" except beginswith.
So I believe it would be better to rename beginswith to startswith for consistency.
I want to know how you feel about this (maybe too trivial to think).

As a reference, Python has the str.startswith method, which works in the same way as beginswith does.

[kmsquire]

I have to say that this has bugged me slightly for about two years, but never enough to try to come up with a justification. So, +1!

[mpastell]

+1 for renaming

[bicycle1885]

I'm almost ready to create a pull request.

[bicycle1885]

This is it: #9583 (didn't GitHub automatically create a cross-link to a referring pull request?)

[ivarne]

Apparently not when you referenced the issue number in the headline, not the body of the pull request.

[JeffBezanson]

🚲 🏠

[kmsquire]

Is there any way to turn that into a tag? ;-)

[jiahao]

That tag would probably get used on half the issues...

[bicycle1885]

😑