Re: [csswg-drafts] [css-values-5] Names of the random-name keywords (#13601)

> That is a lame excuse for bad design.

That's not how we talk to each other in the W3C. Please edit your post, and do not do that again.

> nth-item(random(), ...) (or similar) would not have that problem.

It's effectively identical in terms of the parsing shape (you're required to pass an index first, same as being required to pass a cache-key first), except worse in practice since you have to manually write out the length of the list.

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I don't understand what your proposal in the latter half is.

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