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Goodbye SASS, welcome back native CSS (medium.com)

submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by pcouy@lemmy.pierre-couy.fr to c/programming@programming.dev

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[–] frezik@midwest.social 11 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I like that css now has variables, but why that syntax?

[–] GammaGames@beehaw.org 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I think to make sure they don’t clash with existing identifiers

[–] frezik@midwest.social 23 points 2 weeks ago

I could understand declaring with --foo, but then referencing should be either var(foo) or just --foo, not the combination var(--foo). I don't get why the grammar has to work that way.