On Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 7:41 AM, Mark Volkmann <r.mark.volkmann@gmail.com>wrote: > I don't see how referring to them as properties instead of variables > helps. There is still one syntax for setting them and one for getting them. > People are going to want to understand why it's good for it to be this way. > Many will be coming from LESS and Sass where it is not this way. > With the recent syntax change I think this is not hard to explain. You set a property like all properties are set: --foo: <value> In css, functions are how you represent a value that is not a literal. E.g. attr(). So it's not hard to explain why the var() accessor function exists. var(--foo) It's the same key in both cases. And seeing as how CSS has already used almost every special character[1] I can see on my keyboard right now, I think I'm ok with it not adding another sigil. Chris Eppstein Sass Core Team Member [1]: Only $, &, ?, <, `, and = are left. Note that $ was explicitly rejected here because CSS custom properties behave so differently from Sass variables.Received on Thursday, 3 April 2014 15:58:29 UTC
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