Well, it seems to me that the antcontrib <propertycopy> task pretty much
allows you to do what the "-ref" attribute version does, i.e. "recursive"
variable, as discussed last week by Diane, Erik, and others. I see no value
in attr-ref="aProperty" compared to attr="${aProperty}"... It makes it less
obvious you are de-referencing the property in fact. The only value it would
add would be to allow attr-ref="${aProperty-name}", equivalent to the
illegal attr="${${aProperty-name}}". But as Diane pointed out, you can do
that with <propertycopy> already.So even though my vote does count, I'd say -1 ;-) --DD -----Original Message----- From: Peter Donald [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, March 30, 2002 10:03 PM To: Ant Developers List Subject: [myrmidon] -ref vs ${} Hi, I just wanted to get peoples opinion on something I been playing with. Currently in myrmidon the followin attributes will get identical values myAttribute="${value}" myAttribute-ref="value" My question is do we need to support the "-ref" version of attribute evaluation or is the first sfficient for all our use cases? -- Cheers, Pete "You know what a dumbshit the 'average man' on the street is? Well, by definition, half of them are even dumber than that!" J.R. "Bob" Dobbs -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
