Usage of children as a function pattern

[RohovDmytro]

I believe this pattern is nice to be used in material-ui — it gives a good level of flexibility.

It's an idea to discuss. Do someone feels good about applying this to material-ui? Your thoughts?

downshift and react-toggled are build with that and it they look very powerful.

[oliviertassinari]

Compound components is an interesting pattern. We haven't found a use case for it yet. The main pros I see with this pattern is the flexibility it offers. The main cons I see is around performance. Does creating new functions at each render hurt? To be cautious.

The closest pattern we have is cristalized by the muiName component static property.

[oliviertassinari]

So, thanks for raising this voice, be sure we will think about it for the components we haven't migrated yet. This pattern could be potentially used for the TimePicker/DatePicker components. We will see.