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                                            Bob Nystrom

Replace record fields (`$1`, `$2`, etc.) with named fields if type contains field names (eg. `(int a, int b)`)

I definitely understand the desire for this feature. It seems like the names are *right there* and we should be able to hang useful behavior off them. But my feeling...

Allow `default` in a switch expression (as an alias for `_`)

> If `default` is _just_ an alias for `case _` then isn't it just as (in)expressive/flexible? It's not simply an alias for `case _`, because `case _` can have a...

Replace record fields (`$1`, `$2`, etc.) with named fields if type contains field names (eg. `(int a, int b)`)

> > But what happens when a user tries to do: > > ```dart > > test(bool condition) { > > (int a, int b) v1 = (1, 2); >...

Replace record fields (`$1`, `$2`, etc.) with named fields if type contains field names (eg. `(int a, int b)`)

I'm going to go ahead and close the issue because this is working as intended, but thank you for bringing this up to discuss.

Replace record fields (`$1`, `$2`, etc.) with named fields if type contains field names (eg. `(int a, int b)`)

Actually, after thinking about this more on the drive home, maybe I closed it prematurely. :)

Cast pattern executes even when operand subpattern is refuted

> However, I think it's straightforward to justify: if `subpattern?` matches something of type `int?`, for example, then the `?`s "cancel", and `subpattern` matches `int`. This is basically why it's...

Can a constructor augmentation be a redirecting constructor?

> What would you write if you _want_ a constructor to be augmented to a redirecting (generative) constructor, redirecting to a constructor that hasn't been generated yet? Several times, we've...

Macros: augmenting a private final field with a getter creates a chicken-and-egg problem

> All we should have to do here is disallow augmenting final field getters, which it is anyways pretty reasonable to disallow. I think it's reasonable to want to apply...

Unions as parameters

> Dart already has a way of defining sealed union in OOP style Sealed types in Dart model sum types, not union types. [This article](https://viralinstruction.com/posts/uniontypes/) does a good job of...

Eliminate symbol literals with several identifiers?

> I'd recommend that we eliminate the support for these symbol literals containing a dot separated sequence of identifiers from the language, thus eliminating this syntactic ambiguity entirely. Agreed. Kill...