Prevent color string from getting changed to hex

[sevmusic]

Let's say I have a long list of colors I would like to use for text, borders and backgrounds.

@purp: #f161f1;

.color-variant(@name; @color){
    .bg-@{name} {
        background-color: @color;
    }
    .b-@{name} {
        border-color: @color;       
    }
    .text-@{name} {
        color: @color;
    }
}

.color-variant(purple; @purp);

I was expecting:

.bg-purple {
  background-color: #f161f1;
}
.b-purple {
  border-color: #f161f1;
}
.text-purple {
  color: #f161f1;
}

what I got was:

.bg-#f161f1 {
  background-color: #f161f1;
}
.b-#f161f1 {
  border-color: #f161f1;
}
.text-#f161f1 {
  color: #f161f1;
}

Is this something I need to work around?

[seven-phases-max]

This repository is for Less documention issues/requests. For Less language/compiler issues please use https://github.com/less/less.js

Either way this wil be fixed in Less v2.0 (see #1595). As a workaround for Less 1.x use ~"purple" instead of purple.

[seven-phases-max]

Closing as "wrong repo" (and fixed in v2).