Re: @else in Media Queries

On 9 June 2016 at 22:58, Tab Atkins Jr. <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 9, 2016 at 3:34 AM, Daniel Glazman
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> If @else if added, it adds another major layer of complexity:
>> we can only negate a whole MQ right now and not a single component
>> inside a MQ so expressing the "compound" MQ relevant to an arbitrary
>> style rule could be very painful is not impossible. In short it means
>> that copy/paste of a given element with its stylistic information
>> between two different documents could lead to MQ of that form:
>>
>>   @media ...a media query... {
>>     /* nothing here */
>>     @else {
>>       p { color: red }
>>     )
>>   }
>>
>> Sorry, but that's ugly and that clearly sucks. From a UI perspective,
>> wow.
>
> I don't know what you're trying to say here. Can you flesh out the
> example with more detail?

Coming back to this option, why is nesting the @else rule that bad? Sure, in
other languages you have it outside of the first block, but it clearly
connects both visually and avoids the problems of a dangling @else
block.

Sebastian