Re: [css-variables][naming] Renaming 'var'

* fantasai wrote:
>So, at Rename the Web Forward [1], Sylvain and I concluded that it
>just might be better to use 'set-' as the prefix and 'get()' as the
>function name instead of 'var-' and 'var()'.
>
>p {
>   set-???: green;
>   background: get(???);
>}
>
>This takes us closer to "custom properties" than "variables",
>(and has the added bonus of not being an abbreviation!)

Well, `get` and `set` as used here are imperative, while CSS tries to be
a declarative language, so this seems rather confusing to me.
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