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inigyou 41 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Firefox is now the last major browser that still s...

What do you think is the difference between a declaration and a statement?

tremon 40 days ago [–]

I don't need to think, I can just look up their definitions:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declaration_(computer_programm...:

> a declaration in a syntactic language construct is the process of specifying identifier properties for its initialization

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statement_(computer_science):

> a statement is a syntactic unit of an imperative programming language that expresses some action to be carried out

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