Section 13,63: Type_declaration

 A type declaration can be specified only once and must precede all
 executable statements.  A type declaration cannot change the type
 of a symbolic name that has already been implicitly assumed to be
 another type.

 Type declarations must precede all executable statements, can be
 declared only once, and cannot be used to change the type of a
 symbolic name that has already been implicitly assumed to be
 another type.

 Type declaration statements can initialize data in the same way as
 the DATA statement:  by having values, bounded by slashes, listed
 immediately after the symbolic name of the entity.

Sub-Topics

1. Numeric
2. Character