Other benefits: tools like CSS Edit will have an easier time supporting SCSS than Sass. Parsing whitespace-aware syntaxes is hard work.
On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 2:10 PM, Chris Eppstein <ch...@eppsteins.net> wrote: > Ability and Willingness are independent. Learning Sass when you're not even > sure if you want to use it is a "waste of time" at first blush. There's > plenty to learn in Sass conceptually, but with scss, that learning curve > starts right where you are today instead with a stair step. > > chris > > > On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 2:07 PM, Richard Aday <richard.a...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> No I am not trolling. I just want to highlight that I don't think >> learning to use white space is hard to do. However, I respect your argument >> that it "looks like CSS", but am worried that anyone who is going to learn >> SCSS could have just learned Sass instead. >> >> On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 1:37 PM, Chris Eppstein <ch...@eppsteins.net>wrote: >> >>> Are you trolling? >>> >>> On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 1:28 PM, Richard Aday <richard.a...@gmail.com>wrote: >>> >>>> I dont think we have any hard evidence to prove that by pushing SCSS we >>>> are going to gain any users. Any one interested in Sass could figure out >>>> the indentation based syntax easily. Seriously, how long would it take... >>>> 10 minutes??... >>>> >>>> >>>> On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 10:47 AM, Nathan Weizenbaum >>>> <nex...@gmail.com>wrote: >>>> >>>>> The Sass docs probably won't have such a toggle, though. And yes, this >>>>> probably will mean that the indented syntax will have fewer users, and >>>>> thus fewer bug reports etc. However, it will still be mentioned in the >>>>> reference and on the website, if not featured prominently, and I'm >>>>> confident that enough people will continue using it to keep it alive. >>>>> >>>>> On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 10:29 AM, Suno Ano <suno....@sunoano.org> >>>>> wrote: >>>>> > Wincent> So the new syntax is more "approachable" because it will be >>>>> > Wincent> more familiar, but by using it as the default syntax in the >>>>> > Wincent> reference, >>>>> > >>>>> > Chris indicated that in fact the docs will have a toggle to switch >>>>> > between the two http://bit.ly/9zyNUP >>>>> > >>>>> > -- >>>>> > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>>> Groups "Haml" group. >>>>> > To post to this group, send email to h...@googlegroups.com. >>>>> > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>>>> haml+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<haml%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> >>>>> . >>>>> > 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 h...@googlegroups.com. >>>>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>>>> haml+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<haml%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> >>>>> . >>>>> For more options, visit this group at >>>>> http://groups.google.com/group/haml?hl=en. >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> -Richard Aday >>>> >>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>> Groups "Haml" group. >>>> To post to this group, send email to h...@googlegroups.com. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>>> haml+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com <haml%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> >>>> . >>>> 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 h...@googlegroups.com. >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> haml+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com <haml%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com>. >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/haml?hl=en. >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> -Richard Aday >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Haml" group. >> To post to this group, send email to h...@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> haml+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com <haml%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com>. >> 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 h...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to haml+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/haml?hl=en.
