Seriously, why replacing a single function with a ...

# stdlib

[holgerbrandl]

Seriously, why replacing a single function with a very long complex construct?😕

[ephemient]

it's complex because the deprecated function has hidden complexity

[ephemient]

if you don't care about following the current locale then just use .replaceFirstChar { it.titlecase() }, it will have some different behavior but is more predictable

[holgerbrandl]

Thanks. I could do that, but I wonder this is not part of stdlib (as it was before)?

[ephemient]

https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-43023 the goal seems to be: because different users have different expectations for it, it should be explicitly coded

[Fleshgrinder]

There was a long discussion on the KEEP of this, the gist really is: working with text isn't as simple as it seems. 😉

[holgerbrandl]

Ah, thanks for the pointer.

[ephemient]

working with anything human-related (locales, times, countries, names, addresses, etc.) is never as simple as it seems

[Joffrey]

I tried to summarize the responses from JetBrains about this in this SO answer a few months ago:
https://stackoverflow.com/a/67845025/1540818