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

[Dave Abrahams]

on Mon May 02 2016, Joe Groff <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:

>> On May 2, 2016, at 9:46 AM, Dave Abrahams via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> on Sun May 01 2016, Xiaodi Wu <xiaodi.wu-AT-gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>
>>> It's a bad habit of mine, I guess, to err on the side of suggesting conservative
>>> changes on the assumption that it'll be maximally acceptable. If there's
>>> appetite for a more serious renaming, and as you say these are considered
>>> relatively rarely used, then it's a world of possibility!
>>> 
>>> We could do as Shawn suggested and follow precedent in some other languages by
>>> moving these functions out of the global scope. Perhaps these will meet with
>>> some satisfaction:
>>> 
>>> ```
>>> Memory.footprint(of:)
>>> Memory.alignment(of:)
>>> Memory.spacing(of:)
>>> ```
>> 
>> I'd rather have 
>> 
>> MemoryLayout<T>.size
>> MemoryLayout<T>.alignment
>> MemoryLayout<T>.spacing
>
> This would be a legit use for 'extension Any'. IMO it'd be even better
> as just T.size, T.alignment, T.spacing.

I very much disagree.  I don't want to see Array(1..<100).size == 24.

-- 
Dave