On Thu, 22 May 2003, Antoine Levy-Lambert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It is perfectly possible to program ant so that roles are optional > and just make things more explicit.
It certainly is. Peter's patch is half-way there (roles are not optional but not there at all 8-) - roles can be plugged into the two new methods in IntrospectionHelper rather easily. > Roles could be used to disambiguate situations where a component > class implements several interfaces which have a meaning for ant, > say Shape and Block for instance, and a task accepts both shapes and > blocks as nested elements. As could an attribute on the nested element itself. But I agree with the use-case anyway. Stefan
