On Sat, 9 Mar 2002, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sat, 9 Mar 2002, Darrell DeBoer wrote:
>
>> This is not *quite* true. If you use "$!{name}", ant will strip the
>> "$", so you'll see "!{name}" as the value.
>
> That's strange.
But has been that way ever since (which is why we cannot change it,
there are lots of build files that contain Outer$$Inner for inner
classes).
> I checked the manual and it doesn't say you have to double $$ ( or I
> couldn't find that ), and $ is a valid character for an
> attribute.
It says it in a couple of hidden places - in javac.html for example,
but not very prominently. Also there are a bunch of resolved bug
reports that talk about this behavior. We need to fix the
documentation.
Stefan
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