- From: Alan Stearns via GitHub <noreply@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2026 18:26:30 +0000
- To: public-css-archive@w3.org
I don’t think this is very likely to happen. - @ is used by at-rules, and it wouldn’t be great to overload the symbol for this - There aren’t many other single-character sigils we could use that aren’t already used for other things - We tend (at least lately) not to make things so short that you have to learn the semantics by rote. `var()` is probably the shortest syntax that follows this pattern. - A shorter syntax would not have fallbacks, which (IMO) is good practice for variable usage. -- GitHub Notification of comment by astearns Please view or discuss this issue at https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/13334#issuecomment-3739896589 using your GitHub account -- Sent via github-notify-ml as configured in https://github.com/w3c/github-notify-ml-config
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