Introduction. This is the first page in a series of pages on Washington special purpose districts. The page discusses the meaning of the term special purpose district and sets out criteria to distinguish special districts with autonomous governing bodies from other types of districts.
verb (used with object), declared, declaring. 1. to make known or state clearly, especially in explicit or formal terms: to declare one's position in a controversy. 2. to announce officially; proclaim: to declare a state of emergency; to declare a winner.
A function is declared but never referenced with a function call or with an expression that takes the function's address. A class is used only in a way that does not require its definition be known. However, the class must be declared. The following code illustrates such a case: Copy.