unnecessary_late

Unnecessary 'late' modifier.

The analyzer produces this diagnostic when a top-level variable or static field with an initializer is marked as late. Top-level variables and static fields are implicitly late, so they don't need to be explicitly marked.

The following code produces this diagnostic because the static field c has the modifier late even though it has an initializer:

class C {
  static late String c = '';
}

Remove the keyword late:

class C {
  static String c = '';
}

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