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package statement (package declaration, package declaration)
subject			fact

package statement	is a synonym of package declaration
	contains package information about the class in the source file
	has definition A statement that declares the name of the package the file defines
	has example package com.naviseek.canasta
	has purpose to specify that all classes and interfaces in its file belong to a package
	has purpose to specify the name of the package to which the compilation unit in which the package declaration is put belongs
	has syntax package packageName
	is a subtopic of Packages
	is a synonym of package declaration
	is a kind of declaration
	is a kind of statement
	must be the first statement in the source file except for comments
	must occur at the beginning of a file
declaration	is part of definition
statement	is terminated by a semicolon
syntactic unit	has syntax rule bold = mandatory italic = non-terminal normal font = optional

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