- From: Sylvain Galineau <sylvaing@microsoft.com>
- Date: Thu, 31 May 2012 19:57:20 +0000
- To: Brian Kardell <bkardell@gmail.com>
- CC: François REMY <fremycompany_pub@yahoo.fr>, "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>
[Brian Kardell:]
>
> On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 2:23 PM, Sylvain Galineau <sylvaing@microsoft.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > [François REMY:]
> >> > The very idea of mixing up a function with a name ('define') is
> >> > completely confusing.
> >>
> >> +1, BTW.
> >>
> > All right, just so I understand what was being talked about. What part
> > of the following included/'mixed up' a "function"?
> >
> > :root { define-link-color: blue }
> > a { color: $link-color }
> >
> > I see a user-defined property set to a value. And a delimiter to
> > dereference/use that user-defined property. We're clearly not talking
> > about the CSS function syntax since there is no such thing here so what
> are we referring to?
> >
> >
>
> I don't personally find "define" confusing, by I see François' point.
> Sylvain, isn't there any other prefix that we could hang this on that
> doesn't have this potential to confuse? user-*, custom-*, meta-*,
> map-* ?
Sure. But I'm way over my thread-hijacking quota by now so we'll resume
that elsewhere....
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