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var vs dynamic in Dart

Nitish Kumar Singh on February 21, 2019

In Dart and JavaScript we have var keyword for the variable declaration but both are not same. There is the dynamic keyword for variable...

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Sung M. Kim • Feb 22 '19

Thanks for the post, Nitish 👍

I've never used Dart and the post was very easy to follow.
How I understood about var in Dart is that, Dart keeps track of initial variable type while dynamic.

And shouldn't the example 4 use dynamic keyword?

// This is invalid Example this will work
void main() {
     dynamic x = 'Math pi';
     print(x); // Maths pi
     x = 3.14; 
     print(x); // 3.14
}