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authorsingularperturbation <sloanes.k@gmail.com>2016-10-31 21:39:17 -0500
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@@ -716,7 +716,8 @@ untraced references are *unsafe*. However for certain low-level operations
 (accessing the hardware) untraced references are unavoidable.
 
 Traced references are declared with the **ref** keyword, untraced references
-are declared with the **ptr** keyword.
+are declared with the **ptr** keyword.  In general, a `ptr T` is implicitly
+convertible to the `pointer` type.
 
 An empty subscript ``[]`` notation can be used to derefer a reference,
 the ``addr`` procedure returns the address of an item. An address is always
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