DIM issue

[britlion]

Why does

Code:

DIM list(1) AS uByte => {24,2}

compile just fine, but

Code:

DIM p(1) AS String => {"Word","Word"}

Will not. I thought initializing arrays this way was a replacement for READ and DATA, which are not supported! I love being able to block fill an array at compile time with numbers. Can I not do the same thing with strings? How do I replace:

DATA "STRING","STRING","STRING" then?