- From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2011 09:29:15 -0800
- To: Colt Antonio Pini <Colt.Pini@nau.edu>
- Cc: Alan Gresley <alan@css-class.com>, "Linss, Peter" <peter.linss@hp.com>, Alex Robinson <css-discuss@alex.fu2k.org>, "L. David Baron" <dbaron@dbaron.org>, www-style list <www-style@w3.org>, Daniel Glazman <daniel.glazman@disruptive-innovations.com>
On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 8:55 AM, Colt Antonio Pini <Colt.Pini@nau.edu> wrote: > I may be piping in at the wrong time, or I might be the wrong person to do so. But I just wanted to ask... > > What would be wrong with: > > @var $foo 'the value'; > Or > @var $foo "the value"; > > ? > > It seems that may help decide with problems such as @var $foo '/* the value */'; Requiring quotes for ordinary CSS values seems inelegant. Plus, strings are a valid type, and having to double up on quotes is ugly: @var $foo "'a font name'"; ~TJ
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