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Who else hates capitalized string type in Dart?

DevotionGeo

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Who else hates capitalized string type in Dart?

Dart is not the first language with that mistake, but it’s newer. It shouldn’t have repeated this mistake.

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wolf4earth

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I’ve asked a friend about this on Twitter (who is a Google Developer Expert for Flutter) and this is what he had to say:

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Korbin73

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Inheriting mistakes from other languages is so common. Null is a classic example of languages inheriting the mistake all the way back from Algol that even the creator of it admitted was his biggest mistake.

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pillaiindu

pillaiindu

I never used Dart, but I dislike inconsistency, so I’d hate typing String instead of string if everything else is lowercase.

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