The benefit of doing it now is that there'll be fewer uses of it to fix later when we remove it ;)
How do you use the color math? I don't find it useful beyond adding and subtracting gray which could be replaced by calls to lighten() and darken(). chris On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 2:37 PM, Lorin Tackett <[email protected]>wrote: > I can get behind that. But I'm in conflict about the right course of > action. > > I don't like the idea of removing features just to re-implement them in a > different way at a later date. I'm not opposed to shepherding the user into > using the awesome color functions vs. the color math, but I'm not seeing the > benefit of removing them at this time. > > I still use color math sometimes when I'm feeling lazy (mostly :hover > states). > > -- > Lorin Tackett > http://lorintackett.com > > On Aug 8, 2010, at 2:19 PM, Chris Eppstein wrote: > > It's possible that the color math will re-emerge in a later release as > color operations that make sense. For instance *, +, and - could be the > color math similar to what photoshop does for multiply, add, and subtract > instead of rgb-component based algorithms. > > But mostly because having features that people don't/shouldn't use creates > more to learn and understand and can add to a negative impression of the > language. > > chris > > On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 1:14 PM, Lorin Tackett <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Is there a reason color math should be deprecated? Is it holding back the >> development of Sass? >> >> -- >> Lorin Tackett >> http://lorintackett.com >> >> On Aug 8, 2010, at 10:15 AM, Chris Eppstein wrote: >> >> Now that sass has the color functions, we are considering deprecating >> color math syntax which is not very useful in our experience. This means >> that the following syntax would be slated for removal: >> >> #abc + #321 => #ddd >> >> #abc - #321 => #79b >> >> #333 * 3 => #999 >> >> #999 / 3 => #333 >> >> The full set of color arithmetic that would be deprecated are documented >> here: >> http://sass-lang.com/docs/yardoc/file.SASS_REFERENCE.html#color_operations >> >> If you are using these features, you'd be given deprecation warnings so >> that you could find and change those expressions to functional >> transformations documented here: >> http://sass-lang.com/docs/yardoc/Sass/Script/Functions.html >> >> If you feel this shouldn't be done or that there's a reason to keep any of >> the existing color arithmetic please let us know. >> >> Chris >> >> -- >> 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. > > > -- > 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.
