[swift-evolution] [Review] SE-0101: Rename sizeof and related functions to comply with API Guidelines

[Dave Abrahams]

on Wed Jun 22 2016, Erica Sadun <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:

>> On Jun 22, 2016, at 11:51 AM, Dave Abrahams via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> on Wed Jun 22 2016, Erica Sadun <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
>>> 
>>> No, I'd do edits on a gist page not in-place
>> 
>> Then feel free, of course!  It's your choice, y'know.  I wouldn't want
>> to ask you to propose something you don't believe in...
>> 
>
> I believe the current approach needs improving. I am fine with both
> approaches.  You've more or less convinced me on a very good reason
> why a less perfect solution is a better approach.
>
> I just want to know if it would help going into the core team review
> to have that rationale written up and formal in advance. 

I think it would.  It would *really* help if someone would prepare a
patch that uses both APIs so we could see how the resulting code looks
in practice. :-)

-- 
Dave