Re: Tale from the front: macrodef nesting

2003-10-28 Thread peter reilly
On Tuesday 28 October 2003 17:39, Dominique Devienne wrote: > > From: peter reilly [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > It appears that the attributes as local properties > > patch > > > > http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23942 > > > > causes macrodef to behave in the way you expect.

RE: Tale from the front: macrodef nesting

2003-10-28 Thread Jose Alberto Fernandez
> From: Dominique Devienne [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > From: peter reilly [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > It appears that the attributes as local properties > > patch > > > > http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23942 > > > > causes macrodef to behave in the way you expect

RE: Tale from the front: macrodef nesting

2003-10-28 Thread Dominique Devienne
> From: peter reilly [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > It appears that the attributes as local properties > patch > > http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23942 > > causes macrodef to behave in the way you expect. > > A cut-down version shows this. > > Let me add: >

Re: Tale from the front: macrodef nesting

2003-10-28 Thread peter reilly
I have had a quick look at this. It appears that the attributes as local properties patch http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23942 causes macrodef to behave in the way you expect. A cut-down version shows this. name="a" value="${a}" n

RE: Tale from the front: macrodef nesting

2003-10-27 Thread Steve Cohen
Sorry to say I wasn't involved in the discussion at that time. What were the arguments against using an alternative notation? -Original Message- From: Dominique Devienne [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 27, 2003 9:33 AM To: 'Ant Developers List' Subject: RE

RE: Tale from the front: macrodef nesting

2003-10-27 Thread Dominique Devienne
> From: Steve Cohen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > You're correct about working around this problem. However, I think it's > still a problem that the same > ${identifier} notation can either indicate a macrodef attribute or an > ant property with completely different times of resolution. > > In o

RE: Tale from the front: macrodef nesting

2003-10-27 Thread Steve Cohen
to Fernandez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 27, 2003 5:37 AM To: Ant Developers List Subject: RE: Tale from the front: macrodef nesting > From: Steve Cohen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > I am now trying to experiment with some of the new features > of ant 1.6. He

RE: Tale from the front: macrodef nesting

2003-10-27 Thread Jose Alberto Fernandez
> From: Steve Cohen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > I am now trying to experiment with some of the new features > of ant 1.6. Here's a real-world example of the difficulties > of trying to replace antcalls with macrodefs. > > Given the following definitions, notice that I am trying to > nest a