Group: style
Maturity: deprecated
Dart SDK: >= 2.0.0 • (Linter v0.1.1)
Since info is static, may be staleFrom the style guide:
DO place the super
call last in a constructor initialization list.
Field initializers are evaluated in the order that they appear in the
constructor initialization list. If you place a super()
call in the middle of
an initializer list, the superclass's initializers will be evaluated right then
before evaluating the rest of the subclass's initializers.
What it doesn't mean is that the superclass's constructor body will be executed
then. That always happens after all initializers are run regardless of where
super
appears. It's vanishingly rare that the order of initializers matters,
so the placement of super
in the list almost never matters either.
Getting in the habit of placing it last improves consistency, visually reinforces when the superclass's constructor body is run, and may help performance.
GOOD:
View(Style style, List children)
: _children = children,
super(style) {
BAD:
View(Style style, List children)
: super(style),
_children = children {
DEPRECATED: In Dart 2, it is a compile-time error if a superinitializer appears in an initializer list at any other position than at the end so this rule is made redundant by the Dart analyzer's basic checks and is no longer necessary.
The rule will be removed in a future Linter release.