It's easier to write &:hover {color: $some-color-var + 20;} than to write
&:hover {color: lighten($some-color-var, 20);}
I really just like the convenience of it. It's inarguable that color math is
better in any way to sass' color functions. Color math just panders to my lazy
side.
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On Aug 8, 2010, at 2:43 PM, Chris Eppstein wrote:
> 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).
>
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> 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?
>>
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>>
>> 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
>>>
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