[tomwalsham]

While I like the idea, I feel the dollar sign is a poor choice of character.

There are plenty of free chars that wouldn't expect to cause conflicts with things like sass, or appear at a glance to be a variable reference.

[kadjar]

The bang (!) sign would make more sense to me. It's already used in css to express priority (!important), so it's not much of a logical jump.

[bkardell]

Yes there has been lots of bike shedding. A lot of people, myself included, have lobbied that ! in CSS is already an abomination (because in normal programming it generally means 'not').

Currently the discussions/draft/etc don't match or agree on what the syntax or capabilities will be.

Our :-hitch-has is based on the original :has proposal and the existing implementation in jQuery as we feel that this is the best (and clearly the most powerful since it allows you to express more).