[swift-evolution] [Pitch] Renaming sizeof, sizeofValue, strideof, strideofValue

Erica Sadun erica at ericasadun.com
Thu Jun 2 00:16:28 CDT 2016


> On Jun 1, 2016, at 11:10 PM, Xiaodi Wu <xiaodi.wu at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Jun 2, 2016 at 12:03 AM, Jacob Bandes-Storch <jtbandes at gmail.com <mailto:jtbandes at gmail.com>> wrote:
> If it's worth continuing the discussion in this thread, I rather like the MemoryLayout<T>.size idea. For discoverability, we might want to have @availability(*, unavailable, message: "use MemoryLayout<T>.size, etc.") public init(){}.
> 
> It's a nice syntax, but I'm not fully comfortable with the suggestion that sizeofValue(), etc. should go.  Also, I wonder about the static vs. dynamic type issue here (despite having started the last thread, I still haven't sat down to think it through).
> 

Updated with all the feedback so far. Will keep an eye on this.

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