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title: Variables
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# Variables
Nimrod supports three different types of variables, `let`, `var`, and `const`. As with most things, multiple variables can be declared in the same section.
``` nimrod
proc getAlphabet(): string =
result = ""
for letter in 'a'..'z':
result.add(letter)
# Computed at runtime
const alphabet = getAlphabet()
# Mutable variables
var
a = "foo"
b = 0
# Works fine, initialized to 0
c: int
# Immutable variables
let
d = "foo"
e = 5
# Compile-time error, must be initialized at creation
f: float
# Works fine, `a` is mutable
a.add("bar")
b += 1
c = 3
# Compile-time error, const cannot be modified at run-time
alphabet = "abc"
# Compile-time error, `d` and `e` are immutable
d.add("bar")
e += 1
```
``` console
$ nimrod c --verbosity:2 ./variables.nim
variables.nim(18, 2) Error: 'let' symbol requires an initialization
e: float
^
```
Without `--verbosity:2` only the error will be shown without the position cursor.
## Const
A `const` variable's value will be evaluated at compile-time, so if you inspect the C sources, you'll see the following line:
``` c
STRING_LITERAL(TMP129, "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz", 26);
```
The only limitation with const is that compile-time evaluation cannot interface with C because there is no compile-time foreign function interface at this time.