LESS css syntax error when referencing variable from namespace

Question

I'm getting a syntax error when attempting to reference a variable from a namespace in LESS:

#testns {
    @my_color: #04ffff;
    .me() {
        color: blue;
    }
}

.fun {
    color: #testns[@my_color];
}

The mixin works fine if I do the following:

.fun {
    #testns > .me();
}

But I'm not able to reference the variable from the namespace for some reason. I'm building these in Java using the asual library, and everything else is working perfectly.

Answer 1

This isn't how namespaces work. Namespaces allow you to declare local-scope variables to use in mixins (sort of like a CSS closure, ha!), and the mixins can be referenced from outside the namespace bundle. The variable inside the namespace are private, however, and cannot be referenced from outside the namespace.