>> This is right. "CSS Variables" are some form of
>>"Token Stream Reference" as I call them in the
>> sense that they replace tokens, not chars. As a
>> matter of fact, you can pretty much insert /**/
>> before and after the var(...) declaration to see
>> how it would be interpreted.
>>
>> padding: -/**/1em;
>>
>> doesn’t work, so doesn't
>>
>> padding: -/**/var(...);
>>
> Hmmm, I see. That makes sense, though I kind of
> fear the backlash when people used to preprocessors
> discover they can't do that.
>
> I suppose they could also do something like the following
> if they found themselves needing to use the inverse version
> frequently:
>
> {
> --inverse-gutter: calc(-1 * var(--gutter));
> }
This is a beautiful workaround, indeed.
Sorry for the empty email I just sent to the list, I noticed it was an html reply, so I aimed at clicking "delete" and clicked on "send" instead. Muscle memory, I guess.
Received on Monday, 9 November 2015 21:21:48 UTC