On Fri, 22 Mar 2002, Stefano Mancarella
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> The <ant> task uses <property> for nested elements, while the
> <antcall> task uses <param> (at least in Ant 1.4.1).  Is there a
> particular reason for this?

Historical reasons.  People use <antcall> like calls and feel more
familiar with the term "param", while <ant> is like a command like
execution where you provide "properties" using -Dfoo=bar.

> Shouldn't the two tasks be consistent?

Internally <param> and <property> are the same thing.

Stefan

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