[ruby-core:74169] [Ruby trunk Bug#12145] Aliashood between `size` and `length` is not consistent

Issue #12145 has been updated by Tsuyoshi Sawada.


Similarly, `Enumerable#inject` and `Enumerable#reduce` and `Enumerable#map` and `Enumerable#collect` should be aliased (Although they are not particularly inconsistent, so the motivation for them is not as strong as `size` and `length`. But it is indeed strange that in RDoc, `inject` example appears under `reduce` and vice versa, etc.).

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Bug #12145: Aliashood between `size` and `length` is not consistent
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/12145#change-57312

* Author: Tsuyoshi Sawada
* Status: Open
* Priority: Normal
* Assignee: 
* ruby -v: 
* Backport: 2.1: UNKNOWN, 2.2: UNKNOWN, 2.3: UNKNOWN
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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`:

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

but for `Hash`, `String`, and `Symbol`:

~~~RUBY
{}.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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