Flutter for Beginners

The cascade notation

We've seen that Dart provides the dot notation to access a class member. In addition to that, we can also use the double dot/cascade notation, syntactic sugar, which allows us to chain a sequence of operations on the same object:

main() {  Person somePerson = new Person()    ..firstName = "Clark"    ..lastName = "Kent";   print(somePerson.getFullName()); // prints Clark Kent}

The result is the same as when employing the typical approach. It's just a good way to write succinct and legible code.

The cascade syntax works by getting the first expression's return value (new Person(), in this case) and always operates on this value, ignoring the next expression's return values.

Next, we are going to delve deeper into each of the class ...