On Feb 5, 2014 10:38 AM, "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 5:42 AM, Brian Kardell <bkardell@gmail.com> wrote: > > Just out of curiosity, is there a reason other than "its really close to > > what's there" to pick ^? I'm not trying to gum up the works but I feel like > > someone should at least attempt to play devil's advocate since combinators > > are a pretty rare add. The only issues I can think of are that: ^ is > > already a valid part of attribute selectors - and it would mean something > > really different, and it looks like "up" which might be why it plays it's > > role in regex too. In any case, given the constant use in the community of > > the term "parent selector" it's plausible that this could be misunderstood. > > So I guess the question is why not pick something else with no ambiguity or > > implication.. slashes aren't used, ampersand isn't used, tilde isn't used > > - are any of them better choices? > > Nah, it's more or less arbitrary. > > Slashes were used for the ref combinator, though we're punting that > and might not do it at all. > > Ampersand is used in preprocessors for nested rules, and I'd like to > reserve it for that future use. > > Tilde is indeed used - > http://dev.w3.org/csswg/selectors/#general-sibling-combinators > > ~TJ Crap... Yeah i don't know why i said tilde i meant to say ` ... TIL Don't mail the list before you finish your first cup of coffee I guess.
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