How do I declare an array as a constant in Objective-c?

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Published on 2010-03-12T23:04:24Z Indexed on 2010/03/12 23:07 UTC
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The following code is giving me errors:

//  constants.h
extern NSArray const *testArray;

//  constants.m
NSArray const *testArray = [NSArray arrayWithObjects:  @"foo", @"bar"];

The error I get is
initializer element is not constant

Or if I take away the pointer indicator (*) I get:
statically allocated instance of Objective-C class 'NSArray'

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