> On May 11, 2016, at 10:18 PM, Chris Lattner <clatt...@apple.com> wrote:
> As Dmitri, we specifically discussed this in the core team meeting (I brought 
> it up :-).  The problem is that we really only want the toOpaque() method to 
> exist on UnsafePointer<Void> and don’t have the ability to model that in the 
> language yet.  When that ability exists, we’ll revise these APIs and many 
> others.
> 

Ah good old “same-type requirement makes generic parameter non-generic” :)

I see what the objection is and it makes sense to me. I’ll implement it as 
closely as I can to the spirit of the proposal.


Russ

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