> From: Stefan Bodewig [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> On Thu, 23 Oct 2003, Jose Alberto Fernandez
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > I cannot see what is the real situation that you were referring to,
> > when would you be in a case where you "find a <property>
> task and will
> > have to search all possible scopes for a local" what are all these
> > possible scopes. Can you sketch an example?
>
> Peter refered to the Bugzilla entry which also contains
> patches for the various <ant> tasks. If you have several
> nested <ant>s, you'd have to check each level for a <local>
> that was in place shadowing your global value.
>
But this is no more or less shadowing than me making one of the
<ant> calls passing a <param> with the value of the local. The
effect is exactly the same. And as any changes made by the <ant>
execution will have no effect on the caller, I see no issue.
> AFAIU he doesn't plan to commit that part.
I think it is a mistake that <local> if local is not visible across
<ant>, if that were the case then it should not be visible across
<macrodef> either. If it is visible in one case, so it should in the
other.
Otherwise you get this extremely wird behavior:
<macrodef name="m">
<echo>${p}</echo>
<if>
<equals arg1="${p}" arg2="my local p"/>
<then>
<antcall target="tm"/>
</then>
</if>
</macrodef>
<target name="x">
<local name="p" value="my local p">
<m/>
</local>
</target>
<target name="tm">
<echo>${p}</echo>
</target>
<property name="p" value="my global p"/>
[echo] my local p
[echo] my global p
How on earth by looking at "m" can you even realize what will
happen in the <antcall>? You may have done many checks to properties
to decide whether the antcall should be made or not, and then once you
do the call, it turns out the <antcall> receives completely different
properties than the one you tested. I do not know how such behavior can
make sense to anyone.
Jose Alberto
---------------------------------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
