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Why do keywords have to end in a colon. couldn't the parser use space " " to detect the end of a word, like in C ..
by NickHaflinger 11y ago
Why do keywords have to end in a colon. couldn't the parser use space " " to detect the end of a word, like in C ..
- TazeTSchnitzel 11y agoC requires explicit = in variable declarations. CSS presumably uses the colon for clarity.
- gopowerranger 11y agoCSS is text files and there are no line endings.
- deleted 11y ago[deleted]
- TabAtkins 11y agoI assume you mean property names, because keywords are all over the place and don't have anything to do with colons. It's just a separator between the two semantic halves of a declaration. It could just be a space, but it wouldn't be quite as obvious. Compare "display block;" to "display:block;" It wouldn't save characters, either - you can omit spaces around the colon today and have the same number. That is, "display block" and "display:block" are both 13 chars. There is indeed nothing requiring a colon vs a space, as the grammar is unambiguous either way.