- From: François REMY <francois.remy.dev@outlook.com>
- Date: Thu, 7 May 2015 21:49:30 +0200
- To: "'fantasai'" <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>, <www-style@w3.org>
> Alan Stearns brought up a really great point that the repeat() syntax in Grid > Layout would be easier to read if line names used brackets instead of > parentheses > > repeat([line-name] 10px [line-name] calc(60em+10px)) > > vs > > repeat((line-name) 10px (line-name) calc(60em+10px)) > > Since there's no particular reason to go with one vs the other, we could just > change it. Thoughts? > > ~fantasai FWIW, there's at least some non-subjective reason to prefer brackets, because parentheses conflict with the SASS/LESS value-computation syntax. I would actually be happy to use "width: (100% - 125px)" instead of "width: calc(100% - 125px)" in my stylesheets, especially if (in some hypothetic future) we expand the calc syntax to match things we can do in Media Queries L4. Anyway, even without this, I think naming a line isn't an essential feature enough to endorse the responsibility of closing the door to some general-purpose grouping feature in css, whichever it may be. Given there's no shipped implementation of css grid and I've yet to see a good reason to prefer parentheses, I would welcome the change.
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