You currently can use the spread operator only for collection literals ([]
for List
, {}
for Map
or Set
).
From Bob Nystrom’s article introducing Dart 2.3’s new features:
A spread can only appear in a place that can gracefully handle
receiving zero or more values. Without completely overhauling the
language’s execution model and turning it into Icon (which I find
strangely appealing, but probably not practical…), there aren’t too
many places that fit that constraint. Basically collection literals
and maybe positional argument lists. (I wrote a proposal for the
latter, but it’s quite complex so we aren’t doing it, at least not
right now.)
That proposal doesn’t quite cover what you want, which is to spread a Map
into optional named arguments, however.