Make ucfirst a method of uppercase

[dpsanders]

E.g. with a keyword argument.

[stevengj]

Why? In most languages this (or its analogue) is a distinct function (e.g. ucfirst in Perl, capitalize in Python or Ruby, titleize in Rails, Title in Go)....

We also have the titlecase function to capitalize each word in a string (#19469).

[stevengj]

Arguably, ucfirst should convert the first character to titlecase, not to uppercase, however (mentioned in #11471). This is the same for ASCII, but e.g. dž (U+01c6) would be converted to titlecase Dž (U+01c5) rather than to uppercase DŽ (U+01c4).

The Perl ucfirst function uses titlecase.

[dpsanders]

The reasoning is to reduce API bloat, and because the name ucfirst does not tell me what the function does, since it uses an incomprehensible and non-standard abbreviation.

[dpsanders]

Actually, capitalize is not bad.

[stevengj]

Honestly, I don't see why we need ucfirst given titlecase. I would think that in most circumstances where you'd use ucfirst, it would be for strings consisting of a single word, in which case titlecase(s) would be equivalent.

[stevengj]

I found 17 packages using ucfirst, and in all of them, as far as I can tell, they are applying it to single words where titlecase would work as well.

[dpsanders]

Closing, since ucfirst has now been moved to the Unicode stdlib package.

[rfourquet]

Closing, since ucfirst has now been moved to the Unicode stdlib package.

But there is no separate issue tracker for stdlib packages, so couldn't this be left open?

[StefanKarpinski]

Yes, this is a good reason to move stdlib packages into their own repos at some point, but we're not there yet.