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

[Антон Жилин]

Then why not rename stride(from:to:by:) to range(from:to:by:) ?
I think, range is closer to what people coming from other languages expect
to see.

- Anton

> With the renaming proposed above, stride(of:) will appear to be related
> to stride(from:to:by:). This conflict arises from a pre-existing issue;
> namely, the term "stride" is used to mean two different things. Although
> moving the preposition only highlights the issue, one possible resolution
> is to rename strideof(_:) to strideSize(of:) and strideofValue(_:)
> tostrideSize(ofValue:).
> I wonder if it might make sense to rename all of these, then?
> instanceSize(of:)
> instanceSize(ofValue:)
> alignmentSize(of:)
> alignmentSize(ofValue:)
> strideSize(of:)
> strideSize(ofValue:)
> --
> Brent Royal-Gordon
> Architechies
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