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Subject: Re: RE: Simplest way to protect a variable ?
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> >> A : constant array ( ... ) of ... := file_reading_function (...);
> >
> Try declaring the type first. I don't think you can actually use an
anynomous
> array type in a constant declaration like this.

can't be annonymous as what type of object would the function return?