Should libsass have a compact function?

[xzyfer]

I've noticed libsass defines a compact($values...) function. Ruby sass doesn't appear to now or ever had this function. Since we're aiming for 3.4 parity this should probably go.

[akhleung]

Yeah, I think we needed it for Bourbon support at one point ... not really necessary now that variadic functions are natively supported.

[mgreter]

IMO this is closely related to #489

[xzyfer]

I agree. This feature however would seem to have less adoption, and there a pure sass implementation is trivial. I'm ok with merging #588 to remove this.

[KittyGiraudel]

compact has never been part of Ruby Sass. It is an old function from Compass thus has nothing to do in LibSass in my opinion.

[davidangel]

I'm confused by this, isn't 'compact' documented here: http://sass-lang.com/documentation/file.SASS_REFERENCE.html#output_style

Why wouldn't all of these options get included?

[xzyfer]

@davidangel that's the compact output style. This is in regards to a native compact function that Sass currently does not have http://sass-lang.com/documentation/Sass/Script/Functions.html

[davidangel]

@xzyfer so is there support for the compact output style currently? I've been trying to use it with gulp-sass/nose-sass without much luck...

[xzyfer]

No there is not. We only support nested and compressed. Feel free to open an issue to support that output style.

For the moment it's a low priority. We recommend using PostCSS is you want to manipulate the output styles.