0 an announcement, often one that is written and official: --
1 in cricket, a situation in which a team stops batting (= hitting the ball) because they think they already have enough runs (= points) to win: --
2 an official, public, usually written statement: --
the American Declaration of Independence
a declaration of principles
a customs declaration
3 an official or public statement about something, or the act of making a statement: --
the ILO's declaration of principles on multinational enterprises and social policy
make/sign a declaration The Board made a public declaration of support for its chairman.
4 a written statement that you sign, giving information or saying that something is true, or the act of making a statement: --
The insurance declaration stated that the vehicles which would be used for such journeys were covered by suitable insurance.
You will be asked to sign a copyright declaration before you start work on the project.
make/submit a declaration Despite it being a legal requirement, some traders submit their declarations late, or not at all.
5 a written statement to the tax authorities containing information about money you have earned, etc., or the act of making a statement: --
Such declarations are usually implemented not as efficiently as block declarations.
Then we show that block declarations are sufficient.
We have shown here that, with a knowledge of modes and types, block declarations are sufficient.
The only apparent reason for this discrepancy is that the syntax of module declarations was not carefully thought out.
Interfaces, or signatures, describe the components of a program unit through type declarations and sharing specifications.
In examples, we take the liberty to extend the structure-level declarations with declarations of values and types; similarly, we allow specifications of values and types.
The same environments are passed down to all of the type and class declarations.
Often it suffices to annotate datatype declarations and type signatures with appropriate size constraints.
