Undefined function "starts_with" in Illuminate/Container

A change was pushed a few days ago into the Container library that used the starts_with() function. This is fine in the Laravel framework since that function is defined in the Support library but if you're only using the illuminate/container package without any other Laravel packages then you will get an error since the Support is not listed as a dependency.

What's the best solution? Make illuminate/support a dependency of illuminate/container or change the code to not use that function?