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Aliashood between `size` and `length` is not consistent

Added by sawa (Tsuyoshi Sawada) about 8 years ago. Updated almost 5 years ago.

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[ruby-core:74168]

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When size and length have the same implementation, depending on the class, they are either independently defined methods, or the former is an alias of the latter. Particularly for Array:

[].method(:size).original_name # => :length
[].method(:length).original_name # => :length

but for Hash, String, and Symbol:

{}.method(:size).original_name # => :size
{}.method(:length).original_name # => :length
"".method(:size).original_name # => :size
"".method(:length).original_name # => :length
:"".method(:size).original_name # => :size
:"".method(:length).original_name # => :length

This might be a big issue, but since there is a standard Ruby method original_name, which returns different results, whether this being one way or another should matter. And I see no reason why they should behave differently. They should be unified in one way. Perhaps Hash, String, and Symbol should be made in the same way as with Array.

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