Dominique Devienne wrote:
> > From: Jack J. Woehr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> > Dominique Devienne wrote:
> >
> > > I believe that ${${a}.${b}} is parsed as:
> > >
> > > getProperty("${a") + "." + getProperty("b") + "}", thus the result. --DD
> >
> > Well, it sure looks like it is :-)
> >
> > But is that result reasonable? It looks more to me like an artifact of a
> > coding strategy being elevated to a principle.
>
> First, don't shoot the messenger ;-)
>
> Second, what's one to do? Ant by contract does not support nested
> properties, so what's Ant to do when it sees on opening ${?
Glad you ask.
Ant should behave analagously to m4: recursively expand until it either
hits
ground or an uninstantiated ${decorated} name.
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