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

[Shawn Erickson]

I personally kinda want to see these namespaced instead of global
functions. That could possibly allow clarity in naming.

-Shawn


On Sun, May 1, 2016 at 2:55 AM Brent Royal-Gordon via swift-evolution <
swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:

> > 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:)
>
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