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Goodbye SASS, welcome back native CSS (medium.com)
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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 days 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.