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So... CSS has the same global namespace issue as C, and this CSS Modules is the same solution as C++ namespaces and classes. They call it "mangling". https://e

by ploxiln 11y ago

So... CSS has the same global namespace issue as C, and this CSS Modules is the same solution as C++ namespaces and classes. They call it "mangling". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Name_mangling#Name_mangling_in_C.2B.2B https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Name_mangling#Name_mangling_in... (further commentary prudently withheld)

sbensu 11y ago
I agree that mangling isn't ideal but the naming resolution rules are already defined in every browser and they use a global namespace! From a distance, I don't see a better approach to providing namespace-like-things.
saidajigumi 11y ago
But just as with C++, that's effectively an implementation detail, and irrelevant to the larger issues addressed. BEM itself is just name-mangling structured for humans to execute manually. (wait, WAT.) We're talking about the cognitive model and load that designers and developers have to deal with when authoring styles. I see CSS Modules (and Radium and ...) as being a space for experiments that I hope will ultimately point the way to better "baked in" solutions. Similar to how ideas from Coffeescript were "merged back upstream" into ES6/ES7.