Feature #17163: Rename `begin`

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[sawa (Tsuyoshi Sawada)]

Range#begin is a getter method; it returns a value, and does not have a side effect, or does any calculation. Nevertheless, "begin" is a verb, so there is a mismatch. I would rather expect a noun.

It has a counterpart Range#end, and "end" is a noun as well as a verb, so that is not strange.

I propose to alias Range#begin to a noun or a nominal. "beginning" will work, but it may be too long, so what about "start", which works as a noun (as well as a verb)?

Range#start