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

[Russ Bishop]

> On Jun 2, 2016, at 11:30 AM, John McCall via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
> 
> I still think the value-based APIs are misleading and that it would be better to ask people to just use a type explicitly.
> 
> John.


I agree; in fact why aren’t these properties on the type itself? The type is what matters; why can’t the type just tell me it’s size? 
Having free functions or magic operators seems to be another holdover from C. 


    Int.size
    Int.alignment
    Int.spacing

    let x: Any = 5
    type(of: x).size


The compiler should be able to statically know the first three values and inline them. The second is discovering the size dynamically.


Russ
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