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Learning Dart

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Learning Dart

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Learning Dart
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Documenting your programs


Documenting an application is of utmost importance in software engineering and Dart makes this very easy. The single-line (//) and multiline comments (/* */) are useful (for example, to comment out code or mark lines with // TODO), and they have counterparts /// and /** */ called documentation comments. In these comments (to be placed on the previous line), you can include references to all kinds of objects in your code (classes, methods, fields, and so on) and the Dartdoc tool (in Dart Editor go to Tools | Generate Dartdoc) will generate HTML documentation where these references become links. To demonstrate we will add docs to our banking example (refer to banking_v2doc.dart):

/**
 * A bank account has an [owner], is identified by a [number]
 * and has an amount of money called [balance].
 * The balance is changed through methods [deposit] and [withdraw].
 */
class BankAccount {
  String owner, number;
  double balance;
  DateTime dateCreated, dateModified;
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