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Advanced SCSS

Or, 16 cool things you may not have known your stylesheets could do. I'd rather have kept it to a nice round number like 10, but they just kept coming. Sorry.

I've been using SCSS/SASS for most of my styling work since 2009, and I'm a huge fan of Compass (by the great @chriseppstein). It really helped many of us through the darkest cross-browser crap. Even though browsers are increasingly playing nice with CSS, another problem has become very topical: managing the complexity in stylesheets as our in-browser apps get larger and larger. SCSS is an indispensable tool for dealing with this.

This isn't an introduction to the language by a long shot; many things probably won't make sense unless you have some SCSS under your belt already. That said, if you're not yet comfy with the basics, check out the aweso

Eisenwave

<intdiv> Header for Integer Divisions

Introduction

C++ currently offers only truncating integer division. As a consequence, the remainder operator's sign is same as the sign of the dividend. Alternative rounding modes and remainder sign behaviour are useful.

This proposal adds an <intdiv> header containing free functions for obtaining the quotient and remainder for different rounding modes, such as rounding towards the nearest integer, towards the infinities, etc.