Cast function

I’ve found it very difficult to change from one data type to another in Sass (for instance strings to numbers, maps to strings (which can’t be done correctly without stack-breaking recursion), etc…) without dropping into Ruby to create helper functions. I think this functionality would be very useful, especially for framework developers. The proposed syntax would be something like the following:

$map: (foo: bar, baz: qux);
.foo {
  content: cast($map, string);
}

$string: "Hello World How Are You";
@debug length(cast($string, list)); // 5

[chriseppstein]

The inspect function turns any sass data structure into a string that would parse into equivalent sass (this is the same code we use for sass-convert).

I can’t think of any other use case for a generic cast. So I’m closing this.

[robsonsobral]

I could use a simple way to split a ratio, like 16:9 or 3:4, into numbers.