Variable scope in Stylus

Question

How stylus deals with variables scope?

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1- Are all variables global?

$foo = red // is $foo global?

2- Similarly to the commonJS module, is there any exports/require equivalent?

$foo = @import 'foo'

body { color: $foo }

3- What about variables declared in a CSS block, maybe with mixins:

$foo = green

bar()
  $foo = yellow // is it the same $foo ?
  $baz = blue.  // local or implied global?

ul {

  background: $foo // green or yellow? red?

  $foo = red

  li {

    $foo = pink 

  }

  color: $foo // pink?

  bar() // what about $foo now?

}

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Would appreciate any clarification or documentation about this...

Thank you

Lactone

An issue related to 2/ github.com/LearnBoost/stylus/issues/526 – Lactone

Answer 1

If you slightly reword part #3 of your question:

$foo = green                                                                
p('global: $foo is ' $foo)                                                  

bar()                                                                       
  $foo = yellow                                                             
  p('In bar(): $foo is ' $foo)                                              
  $baz = blue                                                               

p('$baz outside of bar() is ' $baz)                                         

ul {                                                                        

  background: $foo                                                          
  p('In ul: $foo is ' $foo)                                                 

  $foo = red                                                                
  p('In ul: now $foo is ' $foo)                                             

  li {                                                                      

    $foo = pink                                                             
    p('In ul li: $foo is ' $foo)                                            

  }                                                                         

  color: $foo // pink?                                                      
  p('Back in ul: now $foo is ' $foo)                                        

  bar()                                                                     
  p('what about $foo now? ' $foo)                                           
}

Then stylus will answer it:

$ stylus test.styl 
inspect: 'global: $foo is ' (#008000)
inspect: '$baz outside of bar() is ' $baz
inspect: 'In ul: $foo is ' (#008000)
inspect: 'In ul: now $foo is ' (#f00)
inspect: 'In ul li: $foo is ' (#ffc0cb)
inspect: 'Back in ul: now $foo is ' (#f00)
inspect: 'In bar(): $foo is ' (#ff0)
inspect: 'what about $foo now? ' (#f00)
  compiled test.css

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