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

On Apr 14, 2013 10:56 AM, "Adam Prescott" <adam@aprescott.com> wrote:
>
> On 14 April 2013 02:33, Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net> wrote:
> > If you think that `color: blue` modifies the `color` variable so that it
> > has the value `blue` rather than whatever value it may have had, and the
> > previous value of the variable is lost in the process, then sure, that's
> > just "normal css". That is not how I think about it though.
>
> I think I'm missing the distinction between this "setting values and
> losing the original" and whatever other interpretation there might be.
> Is it to do with selector inheritance and cascading, in that the "old
> value" doesn't get replaced, it just gets superseded by a more
> specific selector's declaration?
>
> Perhaps concrete examples showing why setters and getters differ from
> var() and var- would help resolve the confusion here.

There is no proposal to change functionality though, just rename -so they
don't differ at all