Re: [csswg-drafts] [css-nesting] request to pick up the css-nesting proposal

> Alternatively, the only ambiguous case is when the selector starts with an element selector, right? If it starts with an id, class, pseudo-class, or pseudo-element, we know immediately.
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> What if the ampersand was only required in that case?
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> This will simplify a ton of cases. It has the drawback if being a little less consistent but then again, so was requiring whitespace around + and - in calc(), but we did that.

It's still drawing a more complicated boundary around "what's allowed without @nest", and more damningly, the reasoning *behind* the boundary is relatively arcane parsing concerns, far below the level that an author should have to learn about. This means the boundary will feel *arbitrary* to authors, which is a big strike against in terms of learnability and usability.

Additionally, in current preprocessors `.foo { .bar {...}}` already has a meaning - it's equivalent to `.foo .bar {...}`. It's ambiguous what this should mean in Nesting - is it equivalent to `&.bar` or `& .bar`?

If there really was a big usability benefit from being able to omit the `&` I'd be more willing to consider the tradeoffs, but it's a single character to type, and it makes things less ambiguous anyway. I don't think any exceptions here are worth their weight.

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