Peter Donald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 10:45 21/3/01 +1100, Tim Vernum wrote:
>>I think that the desire to do something like >> >> Foreach subdir in toolkit >> do >> Compile subdir/source to subdir/classes >> Jar subdir/classes to subdir/subdir.jar >> done >> >>is a valid request for a build tool, and I don't see it as >>being declarative. > > there is always > > select isFile(*) from toolkit > do > Compile subdir/source to subdir/classes > Jar subdir/classes to subdir/subdir.jar > done > > Which is declarative ;) And now, please, could anybody tell me the difference between those two? Is it that foreach is a keyword in Perl while select is one in SQL? Stefan
