I thought this would be the reply - I really think that ant is generally very good at being verbose and descriptive in its syntax and it would be a shame to let this slip by. Taking another tack: if we don't want to use equal as the default (being uncommon is a fair argument) then why choose "less" over "more"? These strike me as equally common and so we'd only be shortening the typing for half the cases.
Sorry to be so predictable. :-)
Why choose "less" over "more" in <size>? Well, I did that in order to stay orthogonal to <date>, which defaults to "before" rather than "after". And I chose that because dates on files tend to be more in the past than in the future. They are still completely arbitrary, though, I agree.
Yes, it only shortens half the typing, but I thought that might be better than nothing at all.
The bottom line is that I think that people maintaining the code / script being able to quickly understand it is far more important than the coder typing less. Maybe this is a case where no default should be given?
Converting to "equal" would be tantamount to no default since its use is rare, so I see no advantage to requiring the attribute.
Since I have only a mild preference and you and Dominique appear to have a strong one, Ill change the default to "equals" if no one else has an opinion to the contrary.
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