Return-Path: Delivered-To: apmail-jakarta-ant-dev-archive@apache.org Received: (qmail 29266 invoked from network); 1 Mar 2002 09:49:10 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO nagoya.betaversion.org) (192.18.49.131) by daedalus.apache.org with SMTP; 1 Mar 2002 09:49:10 -0000 Received: (qmail 1527 invoked by uid 97); 1 Mar 2002 09:49:19 -0000 Delivered-To: qmlist-jakarta-archive-ant-dev@jakarta.apache.org Received: (qmail 1469 invoked by uid 97); 1 Mar 2002 09:49:18 -0000 Mailing-List: contact ant-dev-help@jakarta.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Help: List-Post: List-Id: "Ant Developers List" Reply-To: "Ant Developers List" Delivered-To: mailing list ant-dev@jakarta.apache.org Received: (qmail 1458 invoked from network); 1 Mar 2002 09:49:18 -0000 From: "Ara Abrahamian" To: "'Ant Developers List'" Subject: RE: Getting the filename from a property Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2002 13:19:04 +0330 Message-ID: <052801c1c106$58010170$5033d9d5@ara> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.2616 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: <001c01c1c001$4fbfe180$6601a8c0@darden.virginia.edu> X-Spam-Rating: daedalus.apache.org 1.6.2 0/1000/N X-Spam-Rating: daedalus.apache.org 1.6.2 0/1000/N > We gotta make things like this simpler, perhaps with special property > syntax > similar to how MessageFormat stuff works. > > ${propertyname,file,filename} > > Come to think of it, is MessageFormat at all extensible to be able to > define > other things besides "date", "time", "number", or "choice"? [I don't think > so, but one can dream!] Looks interesting. Attaching type info to a literal value is interesting and useful. And you can derive from MessageFormat and define whatever you like there. Ara. _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: For additional commands, e-mail: