SE-0331: Remove Sendable conformance from unsafe pointer types

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The review of SE-0331 " Remove Sendable conformance from unsafe pointer types" begins now and runs through December 10, 2021.

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+1, this seems obvious to me, and fixes a bad footgun. We should have caught this when implicit synthesization of sendable was added.

-Chris

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+1. I don’t think it needed to to go through this ceremony. It is an obvious collective oversight and it was not caught too late. We don’t have a ton of code depending on it. I think an amendment to the original proposal would suffice for such cases.

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+1 This is obviously the correct move.

Thank you, everyone. The Core Team has accepted this proposal.

Doug

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