Re: Thinking about mixins as a new type of selector

On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 7:45 PM, Chris Eppstein <chris@eppsteins.net> wrote:
> One thing to note is that in Sass 3.2 (released last week) we have
> introduced a new feature for use with @extend called placeholder selectors.
>
> A placeholder selector is like a class, but it would not become part of the
> generated CSS (or in a native implementation, cannot be used to match
> against the document). We denote a placeholder selector with %.
>
> Near as I can tell, this is exactly what the $ syntax proposed by David is
> doing. (hard to tell -- I keep thinking it's a shell variable :P)

No, as I noted, David's proposed syntax is exactly equivalent to
@extend.  (This may not be obvious from the examples he provided, but
I checked his expectations in person, and they match what @extend
would do.)

~TJ