Automatic string to byte ptr generation

[GWRon]

Heya,

While Mark (blitz-research / Speedy Snail) brought up the topic of passing strings to C not requiring "ToCString()" I scanned the git history of bcc to check when this automatic behaviour was added.

Seems in 2014 ...
ce46857

Now the questions are:
Why was this done?
Wouldn't one expect to pass the "object pointer" instead of some "magic auto generation"?
(What about the people who want to pass the string object / pointer instead of the string content?)

@HurryStarfish suggested (without much tinker-time - so just a "simple thought") to have something explicitely introduced, like the reverse of $z or $w.