A declaration is a form of statement, which expresses (or declares) some idea; declarations attempt to argue that something is true. Some types of written text are said to be declarations, such as the US Declaration of Independence or the proposed Unilateral Declaration of Independence of Quebec. The term statement can have several meanings: In programming, a statement is an instruction to execute something that will not return a value. ... An idea (Greek: ιδέα) is a specific thought or concept that arises in the mind of a person as a result of thinking. ... Argument may refer to: (in logic) a logical argument, that is, an attempt to prove a demonstration of the half-truth of a conclusion based on the truth of a set of premises (in mathematics) at least three different things: a parameter or independent variable that is the input to... See the disimbiguation page for the term, true which points out that the derivative term, truth can mean, in simplest terms, A statement that is in accord with the actual state of affairs in any particular case. ... Writing may refer to two activities: the inscribing characters on a medium, with the intention of forming words and other lingual constructs that represent language and record information, or the creation of information to be conveyed through written language. ... U.S. Declaration of Independence The Declaration of Independence is a document in which the Thirteen Colonies declared themselves independent of the Kingdom of Great Britain and explained their justifications for doing so. ... Reference re Secession of Quebec [1998] 2 S.C.R. 217 was an opinion of the Supreme Court of Canada regarding the legality, under both Canadian and international law, of a unilateral secession of Quebec from Canada. ...

Grammar

In the study of grammar, a declaration or declarative sentence is a sentence that is used to state a fact or argument. Grammar is the study of the rules governing the use of a language. ... In linguistics, the sentence is a unit of language, characterised in most languages by the presence of a finite verb. ...

Cricket

In the sport of cricket a declaration may be called by the captain of the team which is currently batting, voluntarily ending the innings. For more coverage of cricket, go to the Cricket portal. ... In the sport of cricket a declaration occurs when a captain declares his teams innings closed and a forfeiture is when a captain choosing to forfeit an innings. ... In cricket, the captain is the most important member of the team. ... An innings, or inning, is a segment of a game in any of a variety of sports – most notably baseball and cricket – during which a side takes its turn to bat. ...

Computer Science

In computer science, a declaration specifies a variable's dimensions, identifier, type, and other aspects. The declaration, and any related initializer, forms the definition; usually, the declaration and definition are the same thing. Definitions reserve memory. Definitions and declarations can also be used for subroutines (functions); where, they are sometimes referred to as "prototypes". Once again, in some cases the definition and the prototype are the same thing. Wikibooks Wikiversity has more about this subject: School of Computer Science Open Directory Project: Computer Science Collection of Computer Science Bibliographies Belief that title science in computer science is inappropriate Categories: Computer science | Academic disciplines ... In computer science and mathematics, a variable is a symbol denoting a quantity or symbolic representation. ... Dimension (from Latin measured out) is, in essence, the number of degrees of freedom available for movement in a space. ... Identifiers (IDs) are lexical tokens that name entities. ... The terms storage and memory refer to the parts of a digital computer that retain physical state (data) for some interval of time, possibly even after electrical power to the computer is turned off. ... In computer science, a subroutine (function, procedure, or subprogram) is a sequence of code which performs a specific task, as part of a larger program, and is grouped as one or more statement blocks; such code is sometimes collected into software libraries. ... Prototypes or prototypical instances combine the most representative attributes of a category. ...

Initialization allows a program to assign an initial value to a variable. Below is an example of a function in C and C++ (the syntax is the same in this case) which declares an integer variable, x; this is followed by an example where the variable has been initialized to seven, x = 7: The C Programming Language, Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie, the original edition that served for many years as an informal specification of the language The C programming language is a standardized programming language developed in the early 1970s by Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie for use on the UNIX operating... C++ (pronounced see plus plus) is a general-purpose computer programming language. ... The integers consist of the positive natural numbers (1, 2, 3, …), their negatives (−1, −2, −3, ...) and the number zero. ... 7 (seven) is the natural number following 6 and preceding 8. ...

 void example1() { int x; } 

 void example2() { int x = 7; }