hi folks,
in a previous email i've suggested an enhancement to the property task,
adding an "eval" attribute to do resolve property names on the fly.
somebody (stephane baillez) replied asking if what i meant was nested
properties evaluation, yeap that was what i was after.
i've modified the replaceProperties method from the
org.apache.tools.antProjectHelper class of Ant1.4B2 to support nested
evaluation.
for example:
<property name="a" value="A"/>
<property name="c" value="C"/>
<property name="bC" value="BC"/>
<property name="aBC" value="ABC"/>
<echo message="${a${b${c}}}"/>
resolves to "ABC"
interested in integrating this into ant's code base ?
i'm not familiar with the dynamic of this alias (just joined last week).
i've already sent an email with some suggestions for enhancements, a couple
of you replied but not closure was given to it.
is there any proposal process i'm not aware of ?
thxs and regards.
a
