Cloning lists, maps, and sets in Dart

Understanding the difference between deep and shallow copying

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When you create a collection in Dart, the contents of the collection are mutable. You can see that in the following example:

final myList = ['sheep', 'cow'];
myList.add('horse');  // [sheep, cow, horse]
myList.remove('cow'); // [sheep, horse]
myList[0] = 'goat';   // [goat, horse]