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by volemo 436 days ago
> But a dynamic language can have types associated with variables, and it can forbid changing those types after their types have been checked the first time.

So, like C++ with `auto`?

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`auto` is still using static typing, and is a tool for type inference. A dynamically typed version might look equivalent but would behave differently, failing at runtime rather than compile time.