There are plenty of other practical use cases for this kind of control. For example, casting an array of byte[]s to an array of int[]s. It's not hard to con

There are plenty of other practical use cases for this kind of control. For example, casting an array of byte[]s to an array of int[]s. It's not hard to convert using a ByteBuffer, but its still annoying. You and up duplicating a ton of memory for no good reason.