I personally don't like using the | in HAML, I'll write a helper or a
stupidly long line if I am being lazy. Thank you for approving of the
SASS comma though, aids readability imo.

I'll try and take a stab if I get a free moment but I've been slightly
retasked to C# (urgh) for a couple days.

Geoff

On Aug 8, 1:58 am, Nathan Weizenbaum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> What Hampton's saying is that we've decided to allow multiline
> selectors, but the comma won't be a generalized multiline character like
> the pipe is in Haml. Patches are welcomed; I'd use Max's patch, but I
> don't want to implement it as a preprocessor. I'll code it up sometime
> soon if no one else wants to.
>
> - Nathan
>
> Hampton wrote:
> > Because I'm unwilling to budge on the subject.
>
> > Haml is focused on one-line structural tag elements. It forces good 
> > behaviour.
>
> > Nathan had to work hard to convince me to get this much into Sass. And
> > I'm still not a fan, because I think it throws off the readability of
> > sections of it. It messes with your mental-parser. But, alas I am OK
> > with commas.
>
> > /me is an opinionated a-hole.
>
> > -hampton.
>
> > On 8/7/07, Evgeny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >> The comma would be just like the pipe in Haml.
> >> Actually -- why won't Haml use a comma for line-gluing?  Other than
> >> the reason Nathan wrote in his last blog post ...
>
> >> On 8/7/07, Geffy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >>> Wouldn't it just be needed to add the comma+newline as a line
> >>> continuation pair as all the rules have to be separated by a comma for
> >>> CSS to handle them properly. I would certainly use them as currently I
> >>> have my input[type=blah] and textarea selectors all on one line for
> >>> the same set of rules.
>
> >>> When it comes to outputting the CSS its up to SASS if it stuffs them
> >>> all on one line or across several.
>
> >>> Geoff
>
> >>> On Aug 6, 9:14 am, "Richard Livsey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >>>> On 8/6/07, Nathan Weizenbaum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >>>>>>     Currently, Sass will silently eat all but the last selector. Is 
> >>>>>> there
> >>>>>>     something I've missed?
>
> >>>>> I'm a little torn about this. It seems to me that if you have a CSS
> >>>>> selector that's getting so long it won't fit nicely on one line, the CSS
> >>>>> design needs refactoring. Like for Max's case, I think the proper way to
> >>>>> deal with that /isn't/ to have a huge selector that refers to every
> >>>>> active element; the proper design is to have an "active" class that is
> >>>>> applied to elements that need this style.
>
> >>>> I've been doing this for years and it's an elegant solution which cuts
> >>>> down on redundant logic in the templates. In Rails apps I apply the
> >>>> controller name as the id, and the action as the class and so
> >>>> detecting the active links/sections is very simple in CSS.
>
> >>>>> I may be totally wrong, though, so I'll take an informal poll. Hamlites,
> >>>>> how often do you feel the need to have multiline selectors?
>
> >>>> The only times I've run into this are for the cases already mentioned,
> >>>> highlighting active links and in resetting styles. It's only every now
> >>>> and again, but when it does happen it's unexpected and I do find
> >>>> myself wishing it would work as it does in standard CSS.
>
> >>>> --
> >>>> Richard Livsey
> >>>> Head of Agile Development, CitySafehttp://citysafe.orghttp://livsey.org


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