Jose Alberto is secretly the bastion of declarative programming purity on
this mail list, having a prolog background in the past. So if he thinks the
conditionals (and I'd lump try/catch) in there, then he may have a point.
I myself am mostly happy with conditional targets *and* conditional <fail>.
But can see that <try>/<catch> does bring something new to the table.
regarding <cc>; I think it needs more publicity and use.
----- Original Message -----
From: "peter reilly" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Ant Developers List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, March 14, 2003 07:09
Subject: Re: 1.6 milestones ?
The if, foreach, try, and switch tasks are out of ant
for philosophical reasons ("ant is not a scripting language")
The generalized "if"/"unless" for inner elements idea is
used (to great effect) by the cc tasks/datatypes.
Another idea in cc is the use of an extend attribute to
extend datatypes.
Peter
On Friday 14 March 2003 14:54, Jose Alberto Fernandez wrote:
> If we are going to take things out of ant-contrib
> then we should take the <if>, <foreach>, <try> and <switch>
> tasks out of ant-contrib and incorporate them into the main line
> with good documentation.
