On Wednesday 24 April 2002 17:33, Stefan Bodewig wrote:
> It is not a question of what would have been the best way, more how it
> has been in historic versions of Ant.


Wouldn't a backwards-compatible workaround be to not touch $text when it 
matches:

  (!$)$\w+

???

that leaves:

$$foo --> $foo
$foo --> $foo

Certainly nobody actually relies upon this behaviour:
$foo --> foo
because it doesn't do anything useful at all.


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