Re: [css-variables] Initial value of variables

• From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
• Date: Thu, 31 May 2012 08:01:06 -0700
• To: Chris Eppstein <chris@eppsteins.net>
• Cc: François REMY <fremycompany_pub@yahoo.fr>, www-style list <www-style@w3.org>
• Message-ID: <CAAWBYDBYExrQFGrOa5=ExgwdTk7vrzE7gHb-9JO-62vi4CT3-A@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 1:04 AM, Chris Eppstein <chris@eppsteins.net> wrote:
> Why not treat un-initialized variables as a null value? Empty string is just
> a poor-man's null that I think will come back to bite us. We've just added a
> null initial value for variables to Sass and it really cleaned up a lot of
> edge-case scenarios like the one mentioned here.

Not empty string, *empty*.  An empty string serializes as "\"\"" in JS.

~TJ

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