> > One thing that was voted on (positively, I recall), way way back in > > time, was for Ant2.0 to fail on undefined properties. > > Although I've never looked into it, can't you already have it with a > custom PropertyHelper? If you can ensure that your custom property > helper is the last one that gets called - and that it never gets > called for know properties - you should be there. > > Provide this property helper and maybe add a new command line switch > as syntactic sugar, done. > > > 3. But there would be a non-throwing expansion method for code that > > explicitly wanted to not fail on missing strings in their . > > The PropertyHelper could deal with it. > > Stefan
BTW, in proposal/embed is a PropertyHelper which creates a list from a XML file and an XPath. Reading that was my first step on PropertyHelpers... Jan
