de of an assignment (<code>=</code>) statement). In other words, their value remains constant throughout the function body. Attempting to assign a value to a function parameter value will raise a compile-time error.<a href="#fn14" class="footnoteRef" id="fnref14"><sup>14</sup></a></p>
<p>Local variables may be declared at the top of the function block and scope as usual.</p>
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<li id="fn14"><p>Despite being declared constant and appearing to have a pass-by