diff --git a/working/augmentation-libraries/feature-specification.md b/working/augmentation-libraries/feature-specification.md index 644addaa6..5147bdb6b 100644 --- a/working/augmentation-libraries/feature-specification.md +++ b/working/augmentation-libraries/feature-specification.md @@ -419,7 +419,7 @@ scope. *We could say that it attaches itself to the existing name.* Augmentations aren't allowed to *replace* code, so they mostly add entirely new declarations to the surrounding type. However, function and constructor -augmentations can fill in a body for an augmented declaration that is lacks one. +augmentations can fill in a body for an augmented declaration that lacks one. More precisely, a function or constructor declaration (introductory or augmenting) is *incomplete* if all of: @@ -727,13 +727,45 @@ augment class Person { } ``` +A top-level function, static method, or instance method may be augmented to +provide default values for optional parameters: + +```dart +class C { + void m1([int i]); + void m2({String name}); + void m3({String otherName = "Smith"}); // OK, too. +} + +augment class C { + augment m1([i = 1]) {} + augment m2({name = "John"}) {} + augment m3({otherName}) {} +} +``` + +An optional formal parameter has the default value _d_ if exactly one +declaration of that formal parameter in the augmentation chain specifies a +default value, and it is _d_. An optional formal parameter does not have an +explicitly specified default value if none of its declarations in the +augmentation chain specifies a default value; in this case, the default value +is introduced implicitly with the value null in the case where the parameter +has a nullable declared type, and no default values for that parameter are +specified in the augmentation chain. + It's a **compile-time** error if: * The signature of the augmenting function does not [match][signature matching] the signature of the augmented function. -* The augmenting function specifies any default values. *Default values are - defined solely by the introductory function.* +* The augmentation chain has two or more specifications of a default value + for the same optional parameter. This is an error even in the case where + all of them are identical. *Default values are defined by the introductory + function or an augmentation, but at most once.* + +* The augmentation chain has no specifications of a default value for an + optional parameter whose declared type is potentially non-nullable, and + the declared function is not abstract. * A function is not complete after all augmentations are applied, unless it is in a context where it can be abstract. *Every function declaration @@ -840,13 +872,27 @@ Augmenting constructors works similar to augmenting a function, with some extra rules to handle features unique to constructors like redirections and initializer lists. +It is **not** a compile-time error for an incomplete factory constructor to +omit default values. *That is, they are treated similarly to abstract +instance methods in this respect. This allows the augmenting declaration to +implement the constructor by adding a redirection or a body.* + It's a **compile-time error** if: * The signature of the augmenting function does not [match][signature matching] the signature of the augmented function. -* The augmenting constructor parameters specify any default values. - *Default values are defined solely by the introductory constructor.* +* The augmentation chain has two or more specifications of a default value + for the same optional parameter. This is an error even in the case where + all of them are identical. *Default values are defined by the introductory + declaration or an augmentation, but at most once.* + +* The augmentation chain has exactly one specification of a default value + for an optional parameter, and the constructor is a redirecting factory. + +* The augmentation chain has no specifications of a default value for an + optional parameter whose declared type is potentially non-nullable, and + the constructor is not a redirecting factory. * The introductory constructor is `const` and the augmenting constructor is not or vice versa. *An augmentation can't change whether or not a @@ -858,6 +904,13 @@ It's a **compile-time error** if: not a constructor is generative because that affects whether users are allowed to call the constructor in a subclass's initializer list.* +* More than one constructor declaration in an augmentation chain specifies + a default value for the same parameter. + +* A constructor declaration in an augmentation chain is a redirecting + factory, and some declaration in the chain specifies a default value + for one or more parameters. + An incomplete constructor can be completed by adding an initializer list and/or a body, or by adding a redirection: