On 25 Sep 2001, Matthew Inger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think that not guaranteeing the order of > a foreach task is a very bad thing.
My advice comes from a discussion with Peter Vogel, Roger Vaughn and Jose Alberto Fernandez on this list - about three or four months ago. It seemed to fit nicely into Ant's declarative approach as it parallels SQL's select instead of Perl's foreach - and I still like it better that way 8-). Anyway, it's just an advice. Most "foreach" tasks I've seen so far iterate over a <fileset>, as Ant doesn't guarantee the order by which the files in the fileset will be returned (it is platform and probably even JVM dependent), any guarantee for the task would be quite weak. Stefan
