Typed constants serve to provide a program with initialized variables. Contrary to ordinary constants, they may be assigned to at run-time. The difference with normal variables is that their value is initialised when the program starts, whereas normal variables must be initialised explicitly.
Typed constant declaration
Given the declaration:
The following is a valid assignment:
Where Func is a function that returns a String.
Typed constants also allow you to initialize arrays and records. For arrays, the initial elements must be specified, surrounded by round brackets, and separated by commas. The number of elements must be exactly the same as number of elements in the declaration of the type.
As an example:
For constant records, you should specify each element of the record, in the form Field : Value, separated by commas, and surrounded by round brackets.
As an example:
The order of the fields in a constant record needs to be the same as in the type declaration,
otherwise you'll get a compile-time error.
