Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact ant-dev-help@jakarta.apache.org; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list ant-dev@jakarta.apache.org Received: (qmail 4482 invoked from network); 5 Sep 2000 09:38:21 -0000 Received: from public.ndh.net (HELO public.ndh.com) (195.94.90.21) by locus.apache.org with SMTP; 5 Sep 2000 09:38:21 -0000 Received: from sbodewig.bost.de ([195.227.98.11]) by public.ndh.com (8.9.3/8.8.0) with ESMTP id LAA09882 for ; Tue, 5 Sep 2000 11:38:19 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from bodewig@localhost) by sbodewig.bost.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) id LAA01860; Tue, 5 Sep 2000 11:38:20 +0200 X-Authentication-Warning: sbodewig.bost.de: bodewig set sender to bodewig@bost.de using -f To: ant-dev@jakarta.apache.org Subject: Re: Overwriting Properties References: <000101c01719$467b97a0$9701a8c0@hendrix.mimosa.com> From: Stefan Bodewig Date: 05 Sep 2000 11:38:20 +0200 In-Reply-To: "Michael B. Allen"'s message of "Tue, 5 Sep 2000 05:11:26 -0400" Message-ID: Lines: 12 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0807 (Gnus v5.8.7) XEmacs/21.1 (Capitol Reef) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Spam-Rating: locus.apache.org 1.6.2 0/1000/N >>>>> "MBA" == Michael B Allen writes: MBA> I don't understand. What benifit is there to having these MBA> constant properties other than to prevent yourself from making a MBA> mistake and accidentlly overwriting a property. I'm not exactly the right person to answer this question - as I didn't make the change myself. Send an empty mail to ant-dev-thread.3370@jakarta.apache.org to get the explanation I've put together some time back - and the answers others had to this. Stefan