Assign date value to date variable

I'm new Oracle and trying to assign a value to a date variable and then print this value out as follows;

declare d1 DATE;

    d1 := TO_DATE('01062000',"MMDDYYYY"); begin

    dbms_output.put_line (to_char(d1, 'mm/dd/yyyy')); end;

and get error ORA-06550, how do I do something as seemingly simple as this?

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