{"action":"opened","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/sass/sass/issues/1856","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/sass/sass/issues/1856/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/sass/sass/issues/1856/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/sass/sass/issues/1856/events","html_url":"https://github.com/sass/sass/issues/1856","id":110857620,"number":1856,"title":"Allow trailing ampersand for parent selector","user":{"login":"adambuczynski","id":490562,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/490562?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/adambuczynski","html_url":"https://github.com/adambuczynski","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/adambuczynski/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/adambuczynski/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/adambuczynski/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/adambuczynski/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/adambuczynski/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/adambuczynski/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/adambuczynski/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/adambuczynski/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/adambuczynski/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":0,"created_at":"2015-10-11T14:03:34Z","updated_at":"2015-10-11T14:03:34Z","closed_at":null,"body":"In LESS, it is possible to write:\r\n\r\n```less\r\n.foo {\r\n  color: red;\r\n  a& {\r\n    color: blue;\r\n  }\r\n}\r\n```\r\n\r\nTo do the same in SASS, we need:\r\n\r\n```scss\r\n.foo {\r\n  color: red;\r\n  @at-root a#{&} {\r\n    color: blue; \r\n  }\r\n}\r\n```\r\n\r\nThis strikes me as overly complicated and ugly. Could support for trailing ampersand parent selectors be added so that we don't have to resort to using @at-root and interpolation? E.g. just as `&.foo` or `&__bar` are valid, why can't `a&` work?"}}