> you initialize your program, do all the dynamic stuff, then push the "OK, now I'm done being dynamic" button. After that, the program "freezes" into place, an

> you initialize your program, do all the dynamic stuff, then push the "OK, now I'm done being dynamic" button. After that, the program "freezes" into place, and calling a function with a new type of argument it has never seen before or something becomes an error. We could even come up with names for those two phases. We could call the first phase "compile time" or "preprocessor/macro evaluation time", and the second phase "run time" :)