Dart – Constants

In Dart language, Constants are objects whose values cannot be changed during the execution of the program. Hence, they are a type of immutable object. A constant cannot be reassigned any value if a value has been assigned to it earlier. If we try to reassign any value to a constant, Dart throws an exception. 

In Dart language, we can define constants by using 2 keywords :

• final keyword
• const keyword 

Creating a constant using the final keyword:

The final keyword is used to hardcode the values of the variable and it cannot be altered in the future.

Syntax:

// Without datatype
final variable_name;

// With datatype
final data_type  variable_name;

Example:

Dart

main() {

  // Assigning value to var1
  // variable without datatype
  final var1 = 12;
  print(var1);

  // Assigning value to var2
  // variable with datatype
  final String var2 = "GeeksForGeeks";
  print(var2);
}

Output:

12
GeeksForGeeks

Creating a constant using const keyword

The const keyword behaves exactly like the final keyword. The difference between final and const is that the const makes the variable constant from compile-time only.

Syntax:

// Without datatype
final variable_name;

// With datatype
final data_type  variable_name;

Example:

Dart

main() {

  // Assigning value to var1
  // variable without datatype
  const var1 = 32;
  print(var1);

  // Assigning value to var2
  // variable with datatype
  const String var2 = "GeeksForGeeks but with const";
  print(var2);
}

Output:

32
GeeksForGeeks but with const