> Of course, I could be wrong. Thus, I'm asking you, both twifkak in
> particular and the Sassy community as a whole: where, if at all, do you
> think this would be useful?
Meh, I keep forgetting to grab some exemplar CSS snippets from work,
which is one of the reason's I've yet to post (another being I'm
curious what others say, and a third being that I'm a lazy pig).
My theoretic, language-pedant argument is that "," pulls the
abstraction too far away from the individual things. With just two
items it ain't that bad:
.one, .two { common-stuff }
.one { unique1 }
.two { unique2 }
vs:
!common=
common-stuff
.one
!common
unique1
.two
!common
unique2
But as the stylesheet grows, I find the common section tends to pull
farther and farther away from the individuals, and with no hint that
it applies. In other words, the definition of the style of a given
element ends up spreading across several files, and the only way to
know that is grep and/or FireBug.
Maybe I'm just stupid, but I've found it's hard to maintain
abstractions in CSS, and I'd hoped that introducing traditional
mechanisms would make that easier (at least for programmer-folken like
myself). I know an alternative is to sully your markup by tagging
elements with multiple classes, but most of the time, that's adding
coupling -- sure, the .error is also an .emphasized now, but maybe it
won't be in a few weeks. Also, thinner HTML is better, no?
Perhaps I should try it out locally on a mini-project and report if it
helps? Or perhaps I should hunt down a particularly junky snippet that
I think would benefit from some mixin love?
Yeah, I don't have any magical sales pitch, 'cause I'm just not sure
either. It *feels* like it should be useful, and it's something I've
wanted from CSS long before I'd heard of Haml/Sass, but I could just
be f-in' crazy.
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