Awesome I'm in favor of the deprecation as well.

One issue though. I noticed from Chris' gist that in SCSS we will be
using @include to call mixins. What's the point?  It feels more
verbose and is basically a waste of characters. Why not keep the plus
sign for SCSS as well?

Also will 3.0 allow nested level imports?

On Sunday, March 7, 2010, Alex Wallace <alexmlwall...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I would also prefer $ over ! if for no other reason than !important could 
> potentially be confused. I'd consider the ! somewhat reserved in css, whereas 
> $ is accepted for variables.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
> On Mar 7, 2010, at 3:45 PM, Chris Eppstein <ch...@eppsteins.net> wrote:
>
> Here's the blueprint grid, re-written using scss and taking advantage of all 
> the language features that are planned in sass3:
> https://gist.github.com/13b0e09fc6f29c9dffd3
>
>
> You can compare this to the current version:
>
> http://github.com/chriseppstein/compass/blob/master/frameworks/blueprint/stylesheets/blueprint/_grid.sass
>
> Chris
> On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 4:10 AM, Aaron Russell <aaron...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm all for this too. $ makes much more sense than !. Although to be
> honest I'm much more excited about the prospect of removing the need
> for =.
>
> I've been using the SCSS syntax a bit (which is great by the way - a
> massive step in the right direction), but I do get irked by having to
> format styles like:
>
> div {border = 1px "solid" !green;}
>
> If I'll soon be able to do:
>
> div {border: 1px solid $green;}
>
> ..then my major complain of SASS/SCSS will be dealt with. :)
>
>
>
> On Mar 7, 8:42 am, hunkybill <hunkyb...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I am all for this. $ is common in not only PHP stew but also
>> Javascript. ! is NOT!!
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> On Mar 7, 12:43 am, Chris Eppstein <ch...@eppsteins.net> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> > Let's assume for a second that it didn't create parsing ambiguities.
>>
>> > Would you really prefer:
>>
>> > div
>> >   border: width solid blue
>>
>> > over:
>>
>> > div
>> >   border: $width solid blue
>>
>> > I think the latter is much more clear from a reader's perspective.
>>
>> > And without the prefix we could also do horrible things like this:
>>
>> > solid = dashed;
>> > blue = #f00;
>> > width = 1px;
>> > div
>> >   border: width solid blue
>>
>> > which would emit:
>>
>> > div{ border: 1px dashed red; }
>>
>> > In a programming language, you're working with variables all the time. They
>> > are the most common thing you work with and so it makes sense that you'd
>> > optimize the syntax around them, but in sass you're building styles first
>> > and variables are secondary -- as such, I feel quite strongly they should 
>> > be
>> > easily identifiable as special.
>>
>> > Anyways, Nathan has already finished coding all this up and it's on the 
>> > scss
>> > branch. Thanks to everyone for your input. The use of ! as a variable 
>> > prefix
>> > will be deprecated in sass 3.
>>
>> > chris
>>
>> > On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 9:25 PM, Michael Narciso <narke...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > >  I'd prefer no prefix but would be content with $.
>>
>> > > Norman Clarke wrote:
>>
>> > > I strongly agree that $ will be better than !. As far as deprecations go,
>> > > perhaps you could go with first a warning for one release cycle, and then
>> > > leave it as a non-default configuration option for another release cycle
>> > > before eliminating it entirely.
>>
>> > > On Mar 6, 2010 9:13 PM, "Tobias Adam" <tow...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > > I always thought that the "!" prefix tends to be a bit ambiguous
>> > > because of its common notion of a logical NOT.
>> > > I mean that re
>
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