On Wed, 24 Apr 2002, stephan beal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> So any character data which legitmately uses $$foo for it's own
> purposes will then be hosed down to $foo?
Just like it is in Ant 1.4, yes.
> $$$foo, or will $$$foo be treated as two tokens: $ and $$foo? (or $$
> and $foo?).
To be honest, I don't know. Let me see:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] tmp]$ cat > foo.xml
<project default="bar">
<target name="bar">
<echo message="$$$baz" />
<echo message="$$$$xyxxy" />
</target>
</project>
[EMAIL PROTECTED] tmp]$ ant -f foo.xml
Buildfile: foo.xml
bar:
[echo] $$baz
[echo] $$xyxxy
BUILD SUCCESSFUL
Total time: 1 second
You can use three or four dollars.
> Given that, i think it should also not touch any $'d text unless it
> can find a matching variable.
It is not a question of what would have been the best way, more how it
has been in historic versions of Ant.
Ant used to swallow the character after a $ and there are tons of
build files that double the $ sign for just that reason. If we drop
the special behavior for $$ these build files will be broken - no way.
Stefan
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