I'll do it when I manage to re-format the code. Unfortunately NAnt coding
style is a bit different than mine. I'm fighting with astyle right now ;-)
Jarek
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ian MacLean" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Jaroslaw Kowalski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "Martin Aliger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>;
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2003 12:36 PM
Subject: Re: [nant-dev] PATCH: Expression evaluator for NAnt
> You've convinced me. It works for backwards compatibility too as you can
> think of the older type of property ${foo} as an expression containing a
> single identifier and so the result of the expression is the value of
> that identifier.
>
> good work Jarek. Do you want me to commit this to the branch ? or will
> you do it ?
>
> Ian
>
> >Ian,
> >
> >Be sure to check my test1 release of EE. I've implemented the syntax
> >suggested by Martin and I cannot live without it any more. It's
ultra-clean,
> >doesn't break builds (hopefully) and works for all attributes regardless
of
> >their type.
> >
> >One more argument for allowing properties in expressions to be written
> >without "$": Compare:
> >
> ><echo message="aaa" if="${endswith(${somefilename},${extension})}" />
> >
> >with
> >
> ><echo message="aaa" if="${endswith(somefilename,extension)}" />
> >
> >The ugliness factor is close to zero in the latter case, IMHO.
> >
> >Jarek
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Ian MacLean" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >To: "Jaroslaw Kowalski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >Cc: "Martin Aliger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>;
> ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2003 7:01 AM
> >Subject: Re: [nant-dev] PATCH: Expression evaluator for NAnt
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >>I'd much prefer to see properties still distinguised by the $. Maybe the
> >>parser can easily determine that its a property but its not so clear for
> >>a user reading it. Especially since propertys everywhere else require
> >>the $ syntax.
> >>
> >>Ian
> >>
> >>Jaroslaw Kowalski wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>>It's of course possible to distinguish between "property" and
> >>>
> >>>
> >"function()"
> >
> >
> >>>within the parser.
> >>>
> >>>The following interpretation of keywords is very easy to implement:
> >>>
> >>>keyword followed by "(" is a function call.
> >>>true/false are boolean literals
> >>>everything else denotes a property
> >>>
> >>>The following would be allowed then (should it be?):
> >>>
> >>><property name="length" value="aaaaaaaa" />
> >>><if test="length(length)=8">
> >>> <echo message="ok" />
> >>></if>
> >>>
> >>>Jarek
> >>>
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