On Thu, 23 Oct 2003, Jose Alberto Fernandez
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> From: Stefan Bodewig [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> 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.
Except that <param> is explicit and doesn't happen by accident.
> 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.
You have a compelling example here
> <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
and I currently don't have an answer for this.
Stefan
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