woud love to write annotations with less const noise

[kasperpeulen]

When porting angular2 typescript examples, I feel like that in many cases the dart syntax is sweeter, except for the const noise you sometimes have with annotations.

I was just trying to make myself a library with annotations, but in this case, it becomes even worse:

  @Test(parameters: const[
    const[1, 1], const[2, 4], const[3, 9], const[4, 16], const[5, 25]
  ])
  math_pow_squares_an_integer(int number, int squared) {
    expect(math.pow(number, 2), squared);
  }

I would love that in future dart version, all those const annotations wouldn't be necessary anymore. Can I have any hope for this?

In my naive point of view, I would say that if the variable must be constant, dart kind of automatic marks the list constant(behind the scenes). And if that is not possible, warn the user? Isn't that also what happens with strings and integers?

[sethladd]

cc @lrhn for fyi

[zoechi]

I guess it's a dupe of #4046

[lrhn]

It certainly is a dupe.

I wholeheartedly concur with the request. See: https://github.com/lrhn/dep-const/blob/master/proposal.md

[kasperpeulen]

@lrhn Nice to see a proposal! What is the status? Is it accepted?