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[selectors3] better terminology for ~ sibling combinator? #1382

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@dbaron

A recent edit changed the terminology for sibling selectors:

"Adjacent Sibling Combinator" -> "Next-sibling Combinator"
"General Sibling Combinator" -> "Following-sibling Combinator"

I'm a bit hesitant about this change, because it doesn't seem obvious to me that "following" means "any later sibling". I think I occasionally hear the term "following sibling" as a synonym for "next sibling" rather than meaning "any later sibling".

I wonder if there are better options here for the latter combinator. Maybe "Later-sibling combinator" would be better -- although I'm still not sure that it fully disambiguates.

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