With the release of the new parent selector in Sass 3.4 it is possible to deal with your selector as you do with lists. I thought this must be damn usable for your BEM (block element modifier) mixins. .test { @debug type-of(&); //returns list }Problems with the parent selector in Sass 3.3The parent selector has already been reworked in Sass 3.3. Since then you could combine the selector with any k
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