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+// Copyright (c) 2019, the Dart project authors.  Please see the AUTHORS file
+// for details. All rights reserved. Use of this source code is governed by a
+// BSD-style license that can be found in the LICENSE file.
+
+// SharedOptions=--enable-experiment=non-nullable
+
+// Test that it is not a compile time error to write to a `final` variable if
+// that variable is declared `late` and does not have an initializer.
+import 'package:expect/expect.dart';
+import 'dart:core';
+
+main() {
+  late final a;
+  late final b = 0;
+}
+
+class C {
+  late final a;
+  late final b = 0;
+}