Tells you what symbol class a declaration is (subroutine, function, variable). For example, both procedures and functions (in Pascal terms) belong to the routine symbol class, but their declaration classes are different. The declaration class tells the user whether a declaration is a primary declaration or an associated declaration. SCA uses the declaration class to decide what to display as the occurrence class in the result of a FIND command. The user can find the declaration class using the callable interface.