Re: Redefining things which aren't properties

2020-02-21 Thread Christopher Schultz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Stefan, On 2/21/20 11:44, Stefan Bodewig wrote: > On 2020-02-15, Christopher Schultz wrote: > >> Due to a mistake in a somewhat complicated build file, I >> discovered that pattern sets can be redefined in a way that is >> fairly surprising to this

Re: Redefining things which aren't properties

2020-02-21 Thread Stefan Bodewig
On 2020-02-15, Christopher Schultz wrote: > Due to a mistake in a somewhat complicated build file, I discovered > that pattern sets can be redefined in a way that is fairly surprising > to this seasoned ant user. Yes, you references can be re-assigned. I'm not sure whether we have this documented

Redefining things which aren't properties

2020-02-15 Thread Christopher Schultz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 All, I've been using ant for ... ever. And I just got caught by something that I didn't expect. I've come to expect that property values cannot be changed after they have been set; that is, they are write-once and then they are constants. Due to a