You can explicitly create an array with the slice by using ‘Array(slice)’.  
Honestly, I am not sure of the actual value of slices because of issues like 
this.  I would rather have those methods return an Array which is some sort of 
copy on write slice internally.

Thanks,
Jon

> On Sep 6, 2016, at 5:33 PM, Gerriet M. Denkmann <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> var numbers: [UInt64] = …
> 
> func numbers( upTo nbr: Int ) -> [UInt64]              
> {
>       let slice = numbers[ 0 ..< nbr ] 
>       return slice
>       //      Cannot convert return expression of type ‘ArraySlice<UInt64>' 
> to return type '[UInt64]' 
> 
>       //      workaound:
>       var outCopy:[UInt64] = []
>       for i in 0 ..< nbr { outCopy.append( numbers[i] ) }
>       return outCopy
> }
> 
> Any better way to do this?
> 
> Gerriet.
> 
> 
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