Paulo Pinto:
They can be re-assigned (http://forio.com/julia/repl/):julia> x = "Hello" "Hello" julia> x = 5 5 julia>
I think the JIT compiler splits those two in two different variables :-)
The language is dynamic,
The language tries its best to be flexible as a dynamic language. But variables never carry a run-time type tag, unlike in Lisp.
Bye, bearophile
