in reply to Re^2: Help with cause of "Modification of a read-only value attempted at ..."
in thread Help with cause of "Modification of a read-only value attempted at ..."

I don't see anything immediately wrong in relation to the error at hand. Please do as JavaFan suggests and post a small program that reproduces the error.

You really, really should look over this code still, because it (re)declares our %DEFAULTS in two places which makes very little sense as %DEFAULTS is still visible from above.

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