Don't transform pointers to references #2036
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This is a partial revert of #1939 which highlighted too many instances where the metadata is ambiguous and transforming pointers into references isn't safe. The transformation of optional parameters to
Option
remains as that remains reliable and valuable.This addresses cases like #2030 but for that I want to go a little further also mark reserved parameters as optional so you can just pass
None
.Fixes: #2030