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> Rust has "immutable variables". Seriously? How can an object be both variable and immutable?

"Immutable variables" is frequently used, true, but the official term is "immutable bindings".

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Reassuring news. Thanks.

To elaborate slightly, there's three components here:

    let x = 5;
    let mut y = 6;

The let statement binds a variable to a value:

  * x and y are the variables
  * 5 and 6 are values
  * let does the binding

You can have an immutable binding, like x, or a mutable binding, like y. But most people turn "a bound variable" into "a variable" (or "an immutable variable") and "a mutably bound variable" into a "mutable variable".

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