<div dir="ltr">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(){}.<div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>Jacob<br></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jun 1, 2016 at 9:55 PM, Xiaodi Wu via swift-evolution <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org" target="_blank">swift-evolution@swift.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><span class="">On Wed, Jun 1, 2016 at 11:28 PM, Erica Sadun via swift-evolution <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org" target="_blank">swift-evolution@swift.org</a>></span> wrote:<br></span><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><span class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">Upon accepting SE-0098, the core team renamed the proposed stdlib function from dynamicType() to type(of:). They write, "The core team recognizes that this means that we should probably resyntax the existing sizeof/strideof functions, but that should be a follow-on discussion."<br>
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Follow on discussion started. Have at it.<br></blockquote><div><br></div></span><div>See: <a href="http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.swift.evolution/15830" target="_blank">http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.swift.evolution/15830</a></div><div> </div></div></div></div>
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