- From: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
- Date: Sun, 14 Apr 2013 02:06:59 +0200
- To: Sylvain Galineau <galineau@adobe.com>
- Cc: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>, "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>
* Sylvain Galineau wrote: >On 4/13/13 3:57 PM, "Bjoern Hoehrmann" <derhoermi@gmx.net> wrote: >>* fantasai wrote: >>>So, at Rename the Web Forward [1], Sylvain and I concluded that it >>>just might be better to use 'set-' as the prefix and 'get()' as the >>>function name instead of 'var-' and 'var()'. >>Well, `get` and `set` as used here are imperative, while CSS tries to be >>a declarative language, so this seems rather confusing to me. >What, specifically, would an end-user be confused about and how would this >confusion manifest itself? The `var-` prefix exists only because a namespacing mechanism is needed to avoid clashes between pre-defined and author-defined properties. The `set-` prefix conveys that even less than `var-`. We call `color: blue` a declaration, but `set` does not "declare", it "sets"; obviously there would be a reason why the designers of this syntax chose "set" as name, rather than something with more declarative semantics, so custom proper- ties work differently than normal properties. Obviously `get` would get the value associated with the name when it was last `set`, and "when" is temporal, so in order to understand what value `get` retrieves, I have to understand the execution order of the `set` instructions... -- Björn Höhrmann · mailto:bjoern@hoehrmann.de · http://bjoern.hoehrmann.de Am Badedeich 7 · Telefon: +49(0)160/4415681 · http://www.bjoernsworld.de 25899 Dagebüll · PGP Pub. KeyID: 0xA4357E78 · http://www.websitedev.de/
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