👉 In programming, a "pre-declaring" statement is one that declares variables or functions before their initial use. This can be useful in scenarios where you need to initialize variables and functions, but don't want to specify them at the start of your program. For example: ``` int x = 5; double y = 10; ``` Instead of declaring `x` and `y` as constants right away: ``` int x = 5; // or double y