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http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23942 Addition of a local property ------- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2004-10-08 10:52 ------- People, I think I have a much more clean solution to the isue of complex macros and its necessary properties that does not affect the core of ANT at all. It is a complete local solution to macrodef without spillovers. I cannot post it nor commit it until tonight since it is in my machine at home. The basic approach is something I proposed here some time ago. Providing a <let> element in <macrodef> which defined guaranteed unique names for properties. The syntax is very simple: <macrodef name="checkCondition"> <let name="isTrue"> <element name="cond"> <sequential> <condition property="@{isTrue}" value="Hurray!!!"> <cond/> </condition> <echo if="@{isTrue}">The condition is true: [EMAIL PROTECTED]</echo> <echo unless="@{isTrue}">The condition is false</echo> <sequential> </macro> The macro above will be used as follows: <checkCondition> <cond> <available file="${myfile}/> </cond> </checkCondition> And it will print whether the condition is true or not. As you can see from the style of writing, <let/> just defines an attribute ( @{..} syntax) whose value is a name guaranteed to be unique within the JVM. You can use this name as the name for a property, or whatever else. Everytime you execute the macro, a new value is assigned to the let attribute and you can have as many as you want. This is all the machinery you need to write as complicated <macros> as you want, using recurtion or whatever. And since it does not touch and does not rely on changes to the CORE there are no possible BC issues. So let me submit my proposal tonight and we can talk about any misgivings on the particulars. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
