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Specification statements are nonexecutable statements. They are used, for example, to specify properties of data entities and subprograms or to specify the accessibility of certain entities in modules. Every data entity has a type, a rank and, if necessary, other properties. Most of these properties are called attributes. If a data entity has a name, that is, if it is a named variable, a named constant, or a function result, its attributes must be specified in the type declaration statement of the data entity.
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Gehrke, W. (1997). Declarations and Specifications. In: The F Language Guide. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-0989-1_9
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