<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jul 19, 2017, at 12:11 PM, Taylor Swift <<a href="mailto:kelvin13ma@gmail.com" class="">kelvin13ma@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class="">More important I think is the immutable buffer pointer overloads for `<span style="font-family: monospace, monospace;" class="">initialize(from:)</span>` and `<span style="font-family: monospace, monospace;" class="">assign(from:)</span>`. Currently the compiler doesn’t recognize `<span style="font-family: monospace, monospace;" class="">UnsafeBufferPointer</span>` as a subtype of `<span style="font-family: monospace, monospace;" class="">UnsafeMutableBufferPointer</span>`. Idk if it’s worth waiting for this to get added to the compiler, or just cover it in the standard library.</div></div></blockquote><br class=""></div><div>There are no plans to add this support to the compiler. For now, the the necessary overloads should be added to the standard library.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>Sorry if I caused confusion over the implicit casting support. That’s really meant to handle `inout` references to variables but happens to work for UnsafeMutablePointer->UnsafePointer.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>-Andy</div></body></html>