Ability and Willingness are independent. Learning Sass when you're not even sure if you want to use it is a "waste of time" at first blush. There's plenty to learn in Sass conceptually, but with scss, that learning curve starts right where you are today instead with a stair step.
chris On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 2:07 PM, Richard Aday <[email protected]>wrote: > No I am not trolling. I just want to highlight that I don't think learning > to use white space is hard to do. However, I respect your argument that it > "looks like CSS", but am worried that anyone who is going to learn SCSS > could have just learned Sass instead. > > On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 1:37 PM, Chris Eppstein <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Are you trolling? >> >> On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 1:28 PM, Richard Aday <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> I dont think we have any hard evidence to prove that by pushing SCSS we >>> are going to gain any users. Any one interested in Sass could figure out >>> the indentation based syntax easily. Seriously, how long would it take... >>> 10 minutes??... >>> >>> >>> On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 10:47 AM, Nathan Weizenbaum <[email protected]>wrote: >>> >>>> The Sass docs probably won't have such a toggle, though. And yes, this >>>> probably will mean that the indented syntax will have fewer users, and >>>> thus fewer bug reports etc. However, it will still be mentioned in the >>>> reference and on the website, if not featured prominently, and I'm >>>> confident that enough people will continue using it to keep it alive. >>>> >>>> On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 10:29 AM, Suno Ano <[email protected]> >>>> wrote: >>>> > Wincent> So the new syntax is more "approachable" because it will be >>>> > Wincent> more familiar, but by using it as the default syntax in the >>>> > Wincent> reference, >>>> > >>>> > Chris indicated that in fact the docs will have a toggle to switch >>>> > between the two http://bit.ly/9zyNUP >>>> > >>>> > -- >>>> > 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] <haml%[email protected]> >>>> . >>>> For more options, visit this group at >>>> http://groups.google.com/group/haml?hl=en. >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> -Richard Aday >>> >>> -- >>> 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] <haml%[email protected]>. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/haml?hl=en. >> > > > > -- > -Richard Aday > > -- > 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.
