Re: [csswg-drafts] [css-values]: Express conditional values in a more terse way (#5009)

> Authors may want a switch like this to apply by [...]

All but the first of those would require a key/value association in the function, rather than just a list (implicitly keyed by index), which would make the grammar more complicated.

On the other hand, k/v is required for the layout-time switching from bkardell's proposal <https://gist.github.com/bkardell/e5d702b15c7bcf2de2d60b80b916e53c>, so maybe something can be worked out.

I wouldn't want to complicate the common case by requiring each branch to be explicitly tagged with an integer, tho.

> I wonder @tabatkins why not keep what was specified in my proposal: clamp positive values (natural numbers) and invalidate for negative/zero.
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> It preserves the two desirable behaviours of explicit invalidation and clamping. Otherwise, you either have one or the other.

Precisely *because* it's one-or-the-other, and thus consistent. Can you explain why you believe clamping overly-large values is useful?

> I'm unaware if other functions using the semicolon as a separator have been suggested.

Nope, this is new.

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