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

[Xiaodi Wu]

A clash of names is inelegant, but in practice, I'm not actually sure that
there's really a lack of clarity. IMO, `stride(of: Int)` is not really
misinterpretable as anything else.


On Sun, May 1, 2016 at 12:08 PM, Shawn Erickson <shawnce at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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:)
>>
>> --
>> Brent Royal-Gordon
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