No variables support?

[robhrt7]

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[yoshuawuyts]

Variables are supported through the vars plugin which is included by default in Rework & Styl.

[robhrt7]

How to enable vars plugin, to get it work like in example?

[tj]

there's one we'll probably add to styl by default (that one in rework is being moved out of core)

[pyronaur]

Yep. Variables and Math (is it there?) are missing.
I think Rework and style are actually going in the right direction, with keeping the mixins, functions to a language that is supposed to be used for that sort of thing.
However, I can't imagine my life without:

$base_font_size: 16px;
$base_line_height: $base_font_size * 1.6;

$padding: $base_line_height;
$halfling: $base_line_height / 2;

.box__title {
  margin-bottom: $halfling * 2.4;
  font-size: $base_font_size * 2.4;
}

.box {
padding: $padding;
margin: $halfling;
}

Not the most sensible example, but it demonstrates 2 issues I might have.

1. var(padding): var(base-line-height) * 1.6 seems like an overkill. Since I started writing Coffeescript, I prefer not to have parentheses most of the time. Why add them to variables ? And what's with the "var". Yes I can set my text expander to expand $ to "var", but it seems a bit like an overkill.

2. Most of the time I think in relative sizes.
   When doing "$padding * 2",

• I keep myself on track. I have 51.2px instead of 52px, just because I would feel better adding a random +0.8px to round it off.
• If I suddenly feel the necessity to add the +0.8px, the person reading the code after me, still can figure out, that I just did a ceil/floor/round($padding * 2) - just by looking at it, instead of going "I wonder where did this magic number (52px) come from".

[tj]

yup, I started another lib called css-value to parse the values into nodes we can use for the math portion etc

[Zearin]

@visionmedia You are a library-writin’ fool!

Keep up the great work. I love your code. :)

[vendethiel]

this exactly

[robhrt7]

So what's with the variables, is it hard to turn them on in Styl?

[tj]

@operatino I've been helping with this plugin https://github.com/bloglovin/node-rework-variant we'll probably go with that one, already seems like he might not have time to maintain it though haha, might have to fork

[abernier]

👍 for a built-in solution for variables