Assignment Operators
Explore Dart assignment operators to understand how to assign and update variable values efficiently. This lesson covers basic and compound assignments, emphasizes type considerations, and demonstrates their use with practical examples to help you write clear and concise Dart code.
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Assignment operators perform operations that assign a value to an operand. We have already used the basic assignment operator (=) to assign initial values to our variables. We will now focus on compound assignment operators, which combine arithmetic or bitwise operations with assignment.
Compound assignment operators
Compound assignment operators provide a shorter syntax for updating a variable's value.
We use the following general syntax to write a compound assignment:
operand1 operator= operand2
This syntax is a shorthand ...