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Widget constructors expect children in inconsistent ways #241
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Thursday Oct 29, 2015 at 20:28 GMT
Originally opened as https://github.com/flutter/engine/issues/1872
Some widgets (eg: Container) require a name child: argument to specify their children. Others (eg: Flex) take their children as the first argument. This inconsistency is confusing - especially as I switch between different container widgets.
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FlutterIssues commentedon Nov 9, 2015
Thursday Oct 29, 2015 at 20:48 GMT
Yeah, the pattern we've been using is that if you take one widget as a child, you use the name
child. If you take a list, then you use a positional argument. Are you suggesting that we make the list widgets use the namechildtoo? Maybechildren?FlutterIssues commentedon Nov 9, 2015
Monday Nov 02, 2015 at 18:21 GMT
I don't have a concrete suggestion other than it's a little confusing. Perhaps make the list widgets use children so that I'm forced to be explicit everywhere.
tvolkert commentedon Nov 30, 2015
I think we should just always use named arguments for children, since the children argument often takes up many lines of code and usually reads best when it's the last argument passed to a constructor.
abarth commentedon Jan 11, 2016
Will do.
Use a named argument for Widget children
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