I am all for this. $ is common in not only PHP stew but also Javascript. ! is NOT!!
Thanks On Mar 7, 12:43 am, Chris Eppstein <[email protected]> wrote: > Let's assume for a second that it didn't create parsing ambiguities. > > Would you really prefer: > > div > border: width solid blue > > over: > > div > border: $width solid blue > > I think the latter is much more clear from a reader's perspective. > > And without the prefix we could also do horrible things like this: > > solid = dashed; > blue = #f00; > width = 1px; > div > border: width solid blue > > which would emit: > > div{ border: 1px dashed red; } > > In a programming language, you're working with variables all the time. They > are the most common thing you work with and so it makes sense that you'd > optimize the syntax around them, but in sass you're building styles first > and variables are secondary -- as such, I feel quite strongly they should be > easily identifiable as special. > > Anyways, Nathan has already finished coding all this up and it's on the scss > branch. Thanks to everyone for your input. The use of ! as a variable prefix > will be deprecated in sass 3. > > chris > > > > On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 9:25 PM, Michael Narciso <[email protected]> wrote: > > I'd prefer no prefix but would be content with $. > > > Norman Clarke wrote: > > > I strongly agree that $ will be better than !. As far as deprecations go, > > perhaps you could go with first a warning for one release cycle, and then > > leave it as a non-default configuration option for another release cycle > > before eliminating it entirely. > > > On Mar 6, 2010 9:13 PM, "Tobias Adam" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I always thought that the "!" prefix tends to be a bit ambiguous > > because of its common notion of a logical NOT. > > I mean that reading > > > =column-base(!last = false) > > +float-left > > �...@if !last > > +last > > > reads to a Java/Ruby/JavaScript/C/… programmer as "IF NOT LAST" which > > is exactly the opposite of its intended meaning. > > > On the contraty, I think using a "$" prefix positively reminds > > programmers of other languages’ syntax, even if it’s PHP ;-) > > So I would prefer the method of deprecating the "!" notation and > > moving towards the "$" syntax. > > > Greetings, > > Tobi > > > On Mar 7, 12:43 am, Nathan Weizenbaum <[email protected]> wrote: > > > We were originally planning to go... > > > On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 3:38 PM, Gabriel Sobrinho < > > [email protected] > > > > > wrote: > > > > I think variables should not contain a prefix (like in plain ruby). $ > > looks > > > >... > > > >> [email protected]<haml%[email protected]>< > > haml%[email protected]<haml%[email protected]> > > >. > > > > >> For more options, visit this group at > > > >>http://groups.google.com/group/haml?hl=en. > > > > > -- > > >... > > > > [email protected]<haml%[email protected]>< > > haml%[email protected]<haml%[email protected]> > > >. > > > > > For more options, visit this group at > > > >http://groups.google.com/group/haml?hl=en. > > > -- > > You rec... > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "Haml" group. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [email protected]. > > For more options, visit this group at > >http://groups.google.com/group/haml?hl=en. > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "Haml" group. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [email protected] <haml%[email protected]>. > > For more options, visit this group at > >http://groups.google.com/group/haml?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Haml" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/haml?hl=en.
