Library /sys$common/syshlp/basichelp.hlb DECLARE  *Conan The Librarian (sorry for the slow response - running on an old VAX)

  The DECLARE statement explicitly assigns  a  data  type  to  and  names  a
  variable, an entire array, a function, or a constant.

  Examples

  DECLARE INTEGER Catalog_num(100 TO 200)
  DECLARE DOUBLE FUNCTION Cube_volume (REAL)
  DECLARE GFLOAT CONSTANT Lambda = .00000000000005

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