I think that's a valid point. A good example of this is Tcl, where "everything is a string". There are various ways you can treat a given string (as an integer,

I think that's a valid point. A good example of this is Tcl, where "everything is a string". There are various ways you can treat a given string (as an integer, as a list, etc), but that doesn't make the value those types, it just means it can be used as one. string is integer 1 ;# true string is list 1 ;# true (list of length 1)