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New Dart Lang Spec tweaks switch statement, abstract methods, and more

Posted by Seth Ladd


We just published version 0.09 of the Dart Language Spec.

Changes include:

  • Abstract methods may specify default values.
  • Interface methods may specify default values.
  • The ~/ operator can apply to doubles.
  • Refined rules regarding abstract class instantiation, allowing factories to be used.
  • switch statement specification revised.
  • throw may not throw null.
  • Imports introduce a scope separate from the library scope. Multiple libraries may share prefix.
  • Recursive typedefs disallowed.

The switch statement now requires either all the expressions in the cases to evaluate to constant integers or they all evaluate to constant strings. Also, a warning can be generated if you omit the break statement in a case.

As always, the Dart mailing list is standing by to answer your questions, and dartbug.com is a good way to file bugs and feature requests.