> On May 2, 2016, at 1:10 PM, Dave Abrahams via swift-evolution > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > on Mon May 02 2016, Joe Groff <[email protected]> wrote: > >>> On May 2, 2016, at 9:46 AM, Dave Abrahams via swift-evolution >>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> >>> on Sun May 01 2016, Xiaodi Wu <xiaodi.wu-AT-gmail.com> wrote: >>> >> >>>> It's a bad habit of mine, I guess, to err on the side of suggesting >>>> conservative >>>> changes on the assumption that it'll be maximally acceptable. If there's >>>> appetite for a more serious renaming, and as you say these are considered >>>> relatively rarely used, then it's a world of possibility! >>>> >>>> We could do as Shawn suggested and follow precedent in some other >>>> languages by >>>> moving these functions out of the global scope. Perhaps these will meet >>>> with >>>> some satisfaction: >>>> >>>> ``` >>>> Memory.footprint(of:) >>>> Memory.alignment(of:) >>>> Memory.spacing(of:) >>>> ``` >>> >>> I'd rather have >>> >>> MemoryLayout<T>.size >>> MemoryLayout<T>.alignment >>> MemoryLayout<T>.spacing >> >> This would be a legit use for 'extension Any'. IMO it'd be even better >> as just T.size, T.alignment, T.spacing. > > I very much disagree. I don't want to see Array(1..<100).size == 24.
They would presumably be static members, so that wouldn't be valid. Array<Int>.size would be, though. -Joe _______________________________________________ swift-evolution mailing list [email protected] https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution
