Re: [csswg-drafts] [css-var] var(property) (#5729)

That would indeed be the only feasible meaning, yes.

This is explicitly off the table, however, because var-substitution has to know the full graph of variable dependencies to detect cycles. Normal properties can gain dependencies on each other in sometimes-nonobvious ways, making it hard to specify and potentially confusing to use; we also add new dependencies over time, which would break code currently relying on there not being such a dependency between two given properties.  Custom properties, since they have no meaning whatsoever, don't suffer from either of these problems.

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