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declaration
subject			fact

declaration	has definition A statement that establishes an identifier and associates attributes with it, without necessarily reserving its storage (for data) or providing the implementation (for methods)
	is part of definition
	is a subtopic of Arrays
	is a subtopic of Classes and Methods
	is a subtopic of Interfaces
	is a subtopic of Objects
	is a subtopic of Packages
	is a subtopic of Variables and Data Types
	is a kind of syntactic unit
syntactic unit	has syntax rule bold = mandatory italic = non-terminal normal font = optional

Kinds of declaration :

• array declaration (5 facts)
• class declaration (8 facts) - A declaration that specifies a class and does not include the class body
• import statement (10 facts) (import declaration) - A statement that permits using references to other packages without prefixes
• interface declaration (7 facts)
• method declaration (6 facts)
• object declaration (6 facts)
• package statement (13 facts) (package declaration, package declaration) - A statement that declares the name of the package the file defines
• parameter declaration (4 facts)
• variable declaration (1 kind, 12 facts)