# Tonight I hated julia, REPL and overflows

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**Category:** New to Julia\
**Tags:** integer-overflow\
**Created:** [February 20, 2020, 2:10am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/tonight-i-hated-julia-repl-and-overflows/34884 "2020-02-20T02:10:21Z")\
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> [@benibilme](#):
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> I can not create typed variable at global scobe in RELP

I have never seen an error message like that - all variables we create have concrete types. (You cannot redefine composite types without a REPL restart in the global scope, that’s true.) In most cases, you can call type names as constructors, in this case eg. `BigInt(5)`. As jlapeyre mentioned, `big(5)` works here, too.

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