On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 2:58 PM, Michael Ludwig<mil...@gmx.de> wrote: > Steve Loughran schrieb am 12.06.2009 um 11:49:48 (+0100): >> we do strive to be more declarative than fully procedural languages, >> we don't have loops and so lack full turing-equivalence. There are >> also limits to what you can do in java > > I think I can take this to mean "in Ant extensions (written in Java)". > So what are these limits?
I'm not sure there are that many limits to what you can do in one task. If you add a <do-something> task and implement it in java, you can do pretty much anything you want in there, as you have access to a full and rich programming language and APIs. But one rarely writes a one-off <do-something> task that takes no input, as it takes time to design/code/test a task. People write tasks that are generally useful and can be applied to various situations as parametrized by the tasks arguments (attributes, nested elements, etc...). I'm not sure what Steve meant when he wrote "There are also limits to what you can do in java" in fact... --DD --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@ant.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@ant.apache.org
