in reply to Re^5: Internals question.
in thread Internals question.

Yes. I realise that I would have to pre-allocate the array and make sure that neither the array (length), nor the scalar (at all) is mutated.

I'd probably set them read-only using Internals::SetReadOnly() to assist in ensuring that. I realise that probably isn't foolproof. But it's just and experiment.

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