Dynamic Typing

This is the opposite to StaticallyTyped, where type checks are done at runtime. For instance Python is an example of a dynamically typed language, it allows you to pass any type to a function, however some internal functions can only take specific types.

for example

def mul(a,b)

return a*b

print mul(2,3)

6

print mul("*",3)

***

print mul("","")

Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in ? !TypeError?: unsupported operand type(s) for *: 'str' and 'str'

Scheme, Perl, Python, SmallTalk, bash(1) are all Dynamically Typed languages, it's quite common for scripting languages to be dynamically typed.