- From: David Woolley <forums@david-woolley.me.uk>
- Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2008 12:23:09 +0100
- To: www-style list <www-style@w3.org>
Simetrical wrote: > If some kind of sigil is used, there's no reason to prevent keywords > from being used in variable names. The sigil will effectively If CSS must have variables, I think an explicit variable marker would be tbe best approach. However, SQL uses an alternative approach in which bare names can be used as variables, but, if used in a context which clashes with a keyword, special notation (square brackets, or double quotes) can be used to prevent the keyword interpretation. The solution is not compatible with the forward compatibility requirements of CSS. > -- David Woolley Emails are not formal business letters, whatever businesses may want. RFC1855 says there should be an address here, but, in a world of spam, that is no longer good advice, as archive address hiding may not work.
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