One of the attributes of an occurrence. The expression attribute tells you whether the occurrence is one that you the user placed in the source code, or is one which the compiler created for the user. An occurrence can be either explicit or implicit. Explicit occurrences are those placed by the user in the source code; implicit occurrences are those created by the compiler on behalf of the user. For example, in the following FORTRAN program, there are three references to i which are explicit. There is one implicit declaration of i which is created by the FORTRAN compiler when it sees the first reference to i. program test i = 0 i = i + 1 end