From 607cca1431e5f5240b5337005b6715e5f90ba0a8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: disarray2077 <86157825+disarray2077@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2021 19:02:07 -0300
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] Allow null array to be implictly casted to Span

---
 BeefLibs/corlib/src/Span.bf | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/BeefLibs/corlib/src/Span.bf b/BeefLibs/corlib/src/Span.bf
index 2b2f9c36..a2742aba 100644
--- a/BeefLibs/corlib/src/Span.bf
+++ b/BeefLibs/corlib/src/Span.bf
@@ -48,6 +48,9 @@ namespace System
 
 		public static implicit operator Span<T> (T[] array)
 		{
+			if (array == null)
+				return default;
+			
 			return Span<T>(array);
 		}
 		

From 36c72e794e56517f3779c482baf7fd5007f63d4f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: disarray2077 <86157825+disarray2077@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2021 19:22:22 -0300
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Actually, allow Spans to be created from null Arrays

---
 BeefLibs/corlib/src/Span.bf | 20 +++++++++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/BeefLibs/corlib/src/Span.bf b/BeefLibs/corlib/src/Span.bf
index a2742aba..c632f6d2 100644
--- a/BeefLibs/corlib/src/Span.bf
+++ b/BeefLibs/corlib/src/Span.bf
@@ -16,18 +16,35 @@ namespace System
 
 		public this(T[] array)
 		{
+			if (array == null)
+			{
+				this = default;
+				return;
+			}
 			mPtr = &array.[Friend]GetRef(0);
 			mLength = array.[Friend]mLength;
 		}
 
 		public this(T[] array, int index)
 		{
+			if (array == null)
+			{
+				Debug.Assert(index == 0);
+				this = default;
+				return;
+			}
 			mPtr = &array[index];
 			mLength = array.[Friend]mLength - index;
 		}
 
 		public this(T[] array, int index, int length)
 		{
+			if (array == null)
+			{
+				Debug.Assert(index == 0 && length == 0);
+				this = default;
+				return;
+			}
 			if (length == 0)
 				mPtr = null;
 			else
@@ -48,9 +65,6 @@ namespace System
 
 		public static implicit operator Span<T> (T[] array)
 		{
-			if (array == null)
-				return default;
-			
 			return Span<T>(array);
 		}