Forum Discussion
What are variables and how (and why) should I use them?
I got home last night, and the cat insisted he had not been fed all day, and was STARVING. I hadn't been there all day, so I didn't know, and my wife was off to her quilting party, so I couldn't ask...
"are named storage locations" does not mean "what variables are called", it means that variables are storage locations that have actual names. You can give a variable any name you want (within the legal parameters of the language), but best practice demands that the name is descriptive and congruent with the names of similarly used variables.
