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+* Under certain circumstances a variable declaration that is not also a definition could be associated with a `Variable` that did not have the definition as a `VariableDeclarationEntry`. This is now fixed, and a unique `Variable` will exist that has both the declaration and the definition as a `VariableDeclarationEntry`.