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http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=38308 [EMAIL PROTECTED] changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |RESOLVED Resolution| |WONTFIX ------- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2006-01-18 13:54 ------- wontfix. Notice how they are called properties, not variables. 1. Is a core design feature which is designed to make it easy for calling ant tasks and build.properties files to override aspects of nested tasks. 2. >Just imagine how quickly the Java programming language would become extinct if > the variables would become immutable after initialization. Lisp, scheme, ML, Prolog, XSL: all have immutable bindings, bindings that some of the languages actually call "variables". 3. If you need it, there is the ant-contrib <var> task -- Configure bugmail: http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the assignee for the bug, or are watching the assignee. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]