Global variable takes precedence over instance variable in super class with the same name

[jinyus]

I suspect that this is a bug: Subclasses always reference global variables instead of superclass variables with the same name.

final name = 'Guest';

abstract class Person {
  final name = 'Unknown';
}

class Farmer extends Person {
  // this uses the global name
  String get greeting => 'My name is $name';
}

class Baker {
  final name = 'Mr. Baker';

  // this uses the local name
  String get greeting => 'My name is $name';
}

void main() {
  final farmer = Farmer();

  print(farmer.greeting);

  final baker = Baker();

  print(baker.greeting);
}

prints:

My name is Guest
My name is Mr. Baker

expected output:

My name is Unknown
My name is Mr. Baker

[mraleph]

It's not a bug - Dart's scoping is defined to first follow lexical scope and only if that fails try to resolve through super type chain.

It is sometimes surprising - but it is working as intended.