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Title: Rec. 01. Declarations and Initialization (DCL)  
Author: Sandy Shrum Mar 05, 2015
Last Changed by: David Svoboda Aug 07, 2025
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    Page: DCL50-J. Use visually distinct identifiers
    Page: DCL51-J. Do not shadow or obscure identifiers in subscopes
    Page: DCL52-J. Do not declare more than one variable per declaration
    Page: DCL53-J. Minimize the scope of variables
    Page: DCL54-J. Use meaningful symbolic constants to represent literal values in program logic
    Page: DCL55-J. Properly encode relationships in constant definitions
    Page: DCL56-J. Do not attach significance to the ordinal associated with an enum
    Page: DCL57-J. Avoid ambiguous overloading of variable arity methods
    Page: DCL58-J. Enable compile-time type checking of variable arity parameter types
    Page: DCL59-J. Do not apply public final to constants whose value might change in later releases
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