Variables
If you have been following the book sequentially, by this point, you probably have a pretty good idea what a variable is from all of the examples. You’ve been provided with several of the rules for providing names and values for variables as well. This section examines variables in detail and spells out what you can do with them and how to use them.
I like to think of variables as containers on a container ship. You can put all different types of content into the containers, move them to another port, empty them, and then replace the container with new content. However, the container ship analogy suffers when you realize that the content in the containers must have magical properties. If you have a container full of numbers and you ...
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