> I am not sure I get you but is
>
> <target name="clean-build" depends="clean;build"/>
>
> is identical in functionality to
>
> <target name="clean-build">
> <antcall target="clean"/>
> <antcall target="build"/>
> </target>
[Note: I'm not the original author]
Well, for one thing, antcall will cause targets to execute multiple times,
which is not what you generally want.
If the semantics of antcall were changed sufficiently, then I suspect the
second for would suffice, but it doesn't do so in Ant1.x
