On Tuesday 26 March 2002 17:58 pm, Erik Hatcher wrote: > no need to use getProject, its a member variable of Task: project. Just an > FYI.
i firmly believe that public/protected data are *Evil*. When possible i use only accessor functions, even interally, for maximum (warning: swear word) subclassibility. (And no, i've never had a problem with subclasses hosing stuff this way - i've had nothing but good experiences with this approach.) > You sure do enjoy making life more difficult on yourself, don't you?! :) > > You jump through all sorts of hoops - and there is certainly easier ways to > do what you're doing. I don't have the time to think through your very > non-standard probably-never-to-be-added-to-Ant-core <jar> hack, but you've i subclassed - no core changes. > got to work with PatternSet as it exists - those setters are functioning as > they should. Think about it from the XML introspection perspective and > you'll hopefully see what I mean. Maybe they work as they should, but not as they are documented. Set != append. > <patternset id="patternset" includes="...."> > <include name="..."/> > </patternset> > > Which of those patterns should it use? The one from the attribute? Or the > nested element? Or both? If both, how will they get appended together? > :) That's an internal detail which i, as a user, should not need to concern myself with ;). i see your point, though. ----- stephan Generic Unix Computer Guy [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.einsurance.de Office: +49 (89) �552 92 862 Handy: �+49 (179) 211 97 67 "...control is a degree of inhibition, and a system which is perfectly inhibited is completely frozen." -- Alan W. Watts -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
