👉 In the context of computer programming, a pre-declaration is an instruction that declares or marks a variable as having been assigned a value before it has actually been assigned. For example: ``` int x = 5; ``` This statement declares x to be 5 and then assigns it to a variable named x. A pre-declaration can help prevent errors by ensuring that the value of a variable is known at compile time, but not yet in use when the variable is declared.
