31.41 Dart Style Constants

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I prefer an all uppercase name for my constants. This is quite a traditional approach but is effective in clearly identifying what is a CONSTANT.

Preferred

const int WINDOW_WIDTH = 1234;

Discouraged

const int windowWidth = 12345;

Within my code when using windowWidth it is not clear whether that is a variable or a constant or a instance, etc. I do like to know by looking at the code. As WINDOW_WIDTH it is very obvious.

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