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

[Dave Abrahams]

on Sun May 01 2016, Антон Жилин <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:

> 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.

The main reason is that it doesn't produce a Range.  “Range” already has
a meaning in Swift, and it ain't that.

-- 
Dave