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.
defining a function is where you actually provide a definition (what the function actually does) between { } like so: //this is a definition int addTwo(int a, int b) { return a + b }. declaring a function is simply telling the compiler about the function. You let it know it exist by providing the name, the return type, and the number of / type of arguments.