<div dir="ltr"><span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">I personally kinda want to see these namespaced instead of global functions. That could possibly allow clarity in naming.</span><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">-Shawn</div></span><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Sun, May 1, 2016 at 2:55 AM Brent Royal-Gordon via swift-evolution &lt;<a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org">swift-evolution@swift.org</a>&gt; wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">&gt; With the renaming proposed above, stride(of:) will appear to be related to stride(from:to:by:). This conflict arises from a pre-existing issue; namely, the term &quot;stride&quot; is used to mean two different things. Although moving the preposition only highlights the issue, one possible resolution is to rename strideof(_:) to strideSize(of:) and strideofValue(_:) tostrideSize(ofValue:).<br>
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I wonder if it might make sense to rename all of these, then?<br>
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        instanceSize(of:)<br>
        instanceSize(ofValue:)<br>
        alignmentSize(of:)<br>
        alignmentSize(ofValue:)<br>
        strideSize(of:)<br>
        strideSize(ofValue:)<br>
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--<br>
Brent Royal-Gordon<br>
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