> On Jun 2, 2016, at 2:43 PM, Russ Bishop <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> On Jun 2, 2016, at 11:30 AM, John McCall via swift-evolution >> <[email protected] <mailto:[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. > > > Russ
If achievable, this would certainly be clean and elegant. -- E
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