In message <5mm85kFe9gesU1 at mid.uni-berlin.de>, Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch wrote: > To me a `variable` is made of a name, a memory address, a data type, and > a value. In languages like C the address and type are attached to the > name while in Python both are attached to the value. How does C++ with RTTI fit into your picture, then?