Jarrett Billingsley wrote: > "Walter Bright" <newshound1 at digitalmars.com> wrote in message > news:f70mvo$22e7$1 at digitalmars.com... >> It's the old chicken-and-egg problem of forward references. > > Mind elaborating? I can't see how this is a forward reference issue. Sure. What if the string is a const string defined after it is used?