Class Is a First-Order Concept
Dart’s classical approach to object-oriented programming is a significant, and welcome, departure from JavaScript’s prototype-based approach. Prototype-based languages certainly offer some benefits, but ease of approach is not one of them.
As you have seen, Dart classes are introduced with the class keyword.
| classes/basics.dart | |
| | class ComicsCollection { |
| | // describe class operations here... |
| | } |
That’s all we need in order to define a class in Dart—no fancy constructor functions, no heavy libraries to provide classical classes, just class followed by a class name.
| Recipe 10 | Although a class is a first-order concept in Dart, it is not a first-order object. As you saw in Chapter 6, Project: MVC in Dart, it is ... |
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