Types
If you had heard that Dart was a statically typed language, you might be very confused at this point. None of the code that we have written so far declares a single type. Thanks to copious use of the var keyword, our code is blissfully type-free. So what’s the deal?
Dart is not, in reality, statically typed. It is sneakily typed. To understand what that means, consider the following code.
| primitives/types.dart | |
| | var muppet = 'Piggy'; |
| | |
| | // Dart, like JavaScript, allows this, but come on! |
| | muppet = 42; |
We can infer that var indicates a variable type. In other words, not only are we not specifying a type, but we are telling the interpreter that the type can change. So what happens when we declare muppet to have String type?
| | String ... |
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