Le Thursday 07 May 2009 17:08:13 Eric Fetzer, vous avez écrit : > Why do you use <macrodef> for one line of code? Basically, you're creating > a subset of <math> with <increment>. Is that standard among the Ant > community? >
I don't know, since I can't really describe myself as being a member of the ant community ;) I love macros since I'm used to C's preprocessor, and well-written macros (in particular, macros with a meaningful name) help shorten the code a lot. Also, I like large tabs, and usually use 8 spaces wide tabs - but that's just not practical with XML - or Java for that matter. So, in this case, I prefer a "nested" style like I did. You can take my macro definition (macrodef - heh) as a deeply ingrained C habit too: it helps keeping things short, sweet, and to the point. But then, that's a coding style, YMMV ;) My particular choice of implementation here is also guided by the fact that, despite its usefulness, ant-contrib is still not part of base ant (and I really don't have the Java skills to build up a patchset that would make it included, license/development model problems aside), so I try keeping the ant-contrib stuff in my build files to a minimum. I only use var, math and if/then/else, which is already a lot. The switch keyword is nice, too ;) -- Francis Galiegue f...@one2team.com Ingénieur système Mob : +33 (0) 683 877 875 Tel : +33 (0) 178 945 552 One2team 40 avenue Raymond Poincaré 75116 Paris --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@ant.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@ant.apache.org
