Hi,
what I think about dash problem:
- in writing xml element names (Nant tasks) is common to use dashes
- we should not disallow this (i'd like to see numeric properties disallowed
though)
I see 2 possible way how to "enable" use of properties (and even functions)
with dash in name:
A/ allow it on lexical level:
So: <if test="${some-long-property - long-function(1)=42}"/> it means
"prop - func(1)=42"
but <if test="${some-long-property-long-function(1)=42}"/> it means
"func(1)=42"
B/ do some property name tweaking before EE run.
e.g. to replace all "-" with "_"
So u use:
<property name="mine-property" value="42"/>
<if test="${mine_property=42}">
this is not so clean, but quite acceptable. In reality I use this scenarion
in mine proprietary [yet] scripting engine which use Python language (Python
do not enable dashes in variable names while i'm also in xml and there it is
common).
C/
Of course, we could disallow dashes in property names as all but it will
break alot builds I think...
What do you think about it?
Martin
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