[fpc-pascal] Re: Read-only global references

[Mark Morgan Lloyd]

leledumbo wrote:
> Using functions is the only way I know (still it's not that "read only",
> accessing from assembly code still allows modification). For pointer based
> types, you could give a copy of the instance instead of the original one (if
> you want a better read only semantics where the function has persistent
> return value).

Thanks, I'd reluctantly come to the same conclusion. "Read only" in that 
it doesn't expose a global variable which can be unintentionally written.

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Mark Morgan Lloyd
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