unnecessary_ late
Unnecessary 'late' modifier.
Description
#
The analyzer produces this diagnostic when a top-level variable or static
field with an initializer is marked as
late
. Top-level variables and
static fields are implicitly late, so they don't need to be explicitly
marked.
Example
#
The following code produces this diagnostic because the static field
c
has the modifier
late
even though it has an initializer:
class C {
static late String c = '';
}
Common fixes
#Remove the keyword late
:
class C {
static String c = '';
}
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