Explicit conversion needed to go from array to pointer??

[Jarrett Billingsley]

"Henrik Harmsen" <henrik at harmsen.se> wrote in message 
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> Deprecated in what way? Made illegal or obsolete or..?

Made illegal.  There were too many "gotchas" when passing arrays to C 
functions (which is really the only time this conversion was used).

> Can I use an explicit cast? Will it work?

You can just use the .ptr property of the array:

char* p = s.ptr;