[swift-users] Why does withUnsafePointer(to:) require a var argument?

[Florent Bruneau]

Hi Rick,

My understanding on this is that withUnsafePointer() requires an inout argument because it has to take a reference to the variable in order to be able to derive its pointer. The languages requires inout arguments to be vars, leading to withUnsafePointer() requiring the passed object to be a var.

There may be other subtleties I'm not aware of, though.

> Le 27 avr. 2017 à 02:42, Rick Mann via swift-users <swift-users at swift.org> a écrit :
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> We have withUnsafePointer(to:) and withUnsafeMutablePointer(to:). Why does the first take an inout parameter? The function names imply that the first will not modify the pointer (which I take to mean its contents), and it makes it quite clunky to pass in constant things.
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