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

On Sun, 2013-04-14 at 16:52 +0100, Adam Prescott wrote:
> On 14 April 2013 16:42, Brian Kardell <bkardell@gmail.com> wrote:
> > There is no proposal to change functionality though, just rename -so they
> > don't differ at all
> 
> Right. But syntax hints at semantics, and the syntax was clearly
> picked to represent semantics that are subtly different from notions
> of setters and getters, and maybe an example would help clear that up.

At the risk of annoying Tab again (sorry)... might names like my- or
user- or private- emphasize the user-defined/custom aspect over the
mechanism by which they are retrieved?

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Received on Tuesday, 16 April 2013 02:35:24 UTC