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
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
Can someone please look at the following and explain the behavior I am
seeing?