Re: [css-variables] Can custom properties be reset with all?

No worries, I was just checking because I'm writing an article about custom
properties and want it to be factually accurate.

Do have a good link I can point to where the discussion of `--` took place?
It's kind of a hard thing to search for...

On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 8:24 PM, Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Sun, Nov 29, 2015 at 10:34 AM, Philip Walton <philip@philipwalton.com>
> wrote:
> > So, the spec seem to be pretty clear about this:
> >
> >> Custom properties are not reset by the all property. We may define a
> >> property in the future that resets all variables.
> >
> > The thing is, I've read comments by several people (including the spec
> > editor) that specifically mention using `all: initial` for custom
> property
> > resetting. For example, in this Github comment Tab says:
> >
> >> Sure we can...that's what `all: initial` is for. (Alternately, an
> >> equivalent of all for just custom properties has been proposed; it
> would be
> >> called --, as in --: initial.) You can then let particular custom
> properties
> >> thru with --foo: inherit.
> >
> > In addition, Firefox, Chrome Canary, and Webkit Nightly all reset custom
> > property definitions when using all.
> >
> > So I guess in addition to the question I posed in the subject line, is
> this
> > a recent change?
>
> Note: I'm sometimes dumb and forget my own specs.  The "'all' does not
> reset custom properties" is an old dictate, and I forgot about it.
>
> I should move up my plans for a -- property then, I guess.
>
> ~TJ
>