Re: [css-selectors] Proposal: Logical Combinators / Sets

Just wondering if anyone had any thoughts on this - I've received some
positive off-list feedback, but there has been literally no comment here
from anyone.  I feel like it's a good idea (obviously, or I wouldn't have
proposed) and I'd hate to see it die just because I posted at a bad time or
something.


On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 8:39 PM, Brian Kardell <bkardell@gmail.com> wrote:

> A recent discussion about adding Set operations on another list prompted
> me to discuss something to Tab which I've mulled around (even prollyfilled)
> in the past and think it's worth proposing...
>
> CSS selectors operate on _sets_ of elements, but until  recently
> (:matches/:not) we've had nothing in the way of logical selectors or any
> language constructs that hinted at set oriented language.   This seems a
> shame to me as sets and logic gates are some of the most powerful concepts
> in CS.  The relationship feels natural to me.
>
> This proposal would require us to get complex selectors inside, but
> essentially I am proposing some logical combinators like
> :anyof, :allof, :oneof, :noneof to act as predicates which allow some very
> rich selection.  Examples/more details in my blog post:
>
>
> http://briankardell.wordpress.com/2013/03/07/logical-psuedo-selectors-a-proposal/
>
> --
> Brian Kardell :: @briankardell :: hitchjs.com
>



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