> On Jun 2, 2016, at 11:30 AM, John McCall via swift-evolution
> <[email protected]> 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.
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