Re: Curious behavior calling target from script...

2006-06-05 Thread Scot P. Floess
Actually, I find very useful myself... I don't abuse it - but do find I need it once in awhile. For instance, I have some macrodef's where I absolutely need mutability. I can simply define my macrodef and use a known property and vary its contents for each invocation of my macrodef...just l

Re: Curious behavior calling target from script...

2006-06-05 Thread Dominique Devienne
I guess that's why properties are immutable in Ant ;-) I've build a lot of different projects, and I've never ever needed . I really surprised some people find it so useful. It's a loop hole in Ant kept open for BC only. Just forget about ;-) --DD On 6/5/06, Scot P. Floess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> w

Curious behavior calling target from script...

2006-06-05 Thread Scot P. Floess
Can someone please look at the following and explain the behavior I am seeing?