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From: "Conor MacNeill" <conor@cortexebusiness.com.au>
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Subject: Re: Scope of Types
Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2001 23:32:50 +1000
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> The difference with what you are proposing is that by doing it this way
you
> are not only affecting the values of the properties you are passing, but
> those of all other properties in "B" that use the that property to
construct
> its own values:
>
> <property name="build.file" value="${build.dir}/thefile.txt" />
>
> if override at the end, ${build.file} will get the wrong content with
> rrespect to ${build.dir}.
>

Yep, agreed - I think I got it right in the next post :-)

Conor