From: "Bruce Atherton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Thanks for that. Your solution would indeed be fine in this case. > Your welcome.
> What I am really arguing, though, is that there are good reasons to allow > the system to produce values that change. <tstamp> is one example, but as > Ant progresses there will be others. > Here you are talking to a brick wall ;-) I am one of the most stringent believers in property inmutability. 8-) I think it is the right thing and it should be enforced FORCEFULLY. I have advocated for some additional control structures which I think may be used to solve most of the problems trying to use mutability. ANT is (or should be) a declarative language. the most we deviate from it the worst it is going to get. Jose Alberto -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>