Can't use color function on variable with named color

[chelmertz]

With less 1.3.3, I can't write the following:

@main_color: pink;
@alt_color: lighten(@main_color, 10%);

without getting:

error evaluating function `lighten`
test.less on line 2, column 13:

1@main_color: pink;
2@alt_color: lighten(@main_color, 10%);

This is surely a duplicate bug report but I couldn't find the previous one (please post the link here if this gets closed). Cheers.

[revolunet]

see this pull request : #285
i added definitions and conversion for 146 css named colors

[chelmertz]

@revolunet: I haven't tried your patch yet but it looks very solid. Perhaps the two of us are the only ones using spelled out colors :) Good job!

[rubensayshi]

@main_color: transparent;
@alt_color: lighten(@main_color, 10%);

(still) not working, is this not supposed to work because of transparent?

[lukeapage]

transparent isn't a recognised colour in less.js... it was, then it wasn't.. it got complicated...

[lukeapage]

.. use rgba