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captian jaster

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Whats The Point Of A Writable Constant?
« on: August 03, 2010, 11:51:03 pm »
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Whats The Point Of Using These?
http://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/prog/progsu40.html#x47-450001.1.40
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Marc

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Re: Whats The Point Of A Writable Constant?
« Reply #1 on: August 04, 2010, 12:28:15 am »
It was (IMO a hack) Borland introduced to have a variable with an initialized value.

Also (iirc, i'm not sure about this) when used as local var in a procedure/method it they are static, they "remember" the last value assigned to it in a previous call. (
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