On Mon, 23 Jul 2001, Peter Donald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It also would produce surprising results if people were expecting > properties to behave the same as they do elsewhere in the build > file.
I must be missing something here, aren't properties behaving exactly the same as they do everywhere else in the build file? The first property task wins (but you cannot be sure, which one may be the first, of course). Properties defined outside are available in the container and vice versa. In what way are they different? > I think it is an extremely bad idea to have different scoping rules > inside containers from everywhere else. I agree completely - but we'll have to talk about scoping rules in the light of Ant2 (once again 8-). Stefan
