[swift-evolution] Trial balloon: conforming sizeof, sizeofValue, etc. to naming guidelines

[Josh Parmenter]

I think this is a nice suggestion as well.
Best,
Josh

On Apr 28, 2016, at 1:52 PM, Joe Groff via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org<mailto:swift-evolution at swift.org>> wrote:


On Apr 28, 2016, at 11:44 AM, Xiaodi Wu via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org<mailto:swift-evolution at swift.org>> wrote:

We all know and love sizeof(), but given that it's different from its C counterpart anyway, shouldn't these conform to Swift naming guidelines? In other words, after SE-0006, shouldn't these names be as follows?

```
size<T>(of: T.Type)
size<T>(ofValue: T)
stride<T>(of: T.Type)
stride<T>(ofValue: T)
align<T>(of: T.Type)
align<T>(ofValue: T)
```

There are obvious issues with two different things named `stride`, but IMO that's best addressed by renaming one of them; the real problem is that the word stride is used in two different ways already. Thoughts?

Seems reasonable to me.

-Joe

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