why can't css properties start with a hyphen?

[Leo Savernik]

Am Sonntag, 27. Juli 2003 11:13 schrieb Dirk Mueller:
> On Mon, 21 Jul 2003, Leo Savernik wrote:
> > This is not intuitive and looks ugly, so I'd like to know what the
> > rationale behind that change is, and if anybody minds if I fix it one
> > day.
>
> There is no fix required, because thats how CSS is supposed to be.

Ahh, I see, you refer to D.2 of the CSS2 spec. Still strange stuff. Maybe it's 
not allowed because they want to introduce a - combinator one day.