On Tue, Dec 15, 2015, at 03:03 PM, Joe Groff via swift-dev wrote:
> 
> Yeah, it seems to me like a reasonable refinement for 'withUnsafePointer' to 
> take an immutable parameter. Since this is a stdlib API change, you should 
> suggest that on swift-evolution.

A change like that is going to break any code that relies on the inout 
optimization (where it uses call-by-reference instead of copy-in copy-out when 
possible). Yes, such code is in violation of Swift semantics today, but it does 
work.

-Kevin Ballard
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