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A constant may be given a type explicitly by a <a href="#Constant_declarations">constant declaration</a>
or <a href="#Conversions">conversion</a>, or implicitly when used in a
<a href="#Variable_declarations">variable declaration</a> or an
<a href="#Assignment_statements">assignment statement</a> or as an
operand in an <a href="#Expressions">expression</a>.
It is an error if the constant value