Re: [csswg-drafts] [css-values-5] Invalidation of `ident()` (#11424) from Lea Verou via GitHub on 2025-01-23 (public-css-archive@w3.org from January 2025)

From: Lea Verou via GitHub <sysbot+gh@w3.org>
Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2025 22:39:56 +0000
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Fair, one can always do a fallback with a separate variable:

```css
--name: ident(--color- var(--color));
background: var(var(--name, --color-blue));
```

That said…

> In general, CSS functions don't guard against the possibility of some argument being invalid from a nonsense var() substitution. I'm not seeing anything special about ident() that would make it more necessary to add special handling.

I've often needed fallbacks for `calc()`, so this may not be such a bad idea. But shouldn't be a blocker for `ident()`.

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