On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 4:16 PM, Mark Morgan Lloyd <markmll.fpc-pas...@telemetry.co.uk> wrote: > 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.
"...global variable which can be unintentionally written." If the intention is not expose, intentionally, a variable... ok, this is the better way I know (but it can be written without problem). Marcos Douglas _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
