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------- Additional Comments From peterreilly@apache.org  2005-03-22 16:08 -------
Due to history, Ant does not like to accept programming
statement like constructions - like if, for, try.
The ant-contrib project (amounst others) provides an implementation
of these contstructions/tasks for ant users.

This interation task would fit I think into the <for> task
as an iteration type:
<ac:for param="index">
   <ac:iterate iterations="3" offset="2" interval="2">
   <sequential>
       <echo>Iteration @{index}</echo>
   </sequential>
</ac:for>

  Iteration 2
  Iteration 4
  Iteration 6

And/or be a stand-only task.

The <for> task uses macrodef as an implemenation task, hence
use of @{} instead of ${}


I will mark this as WONTFIX (for ant), but the task/type would be usefull
for ant-contrib, so if you attach the task to this bug report
I will be able to add it to ant-contrib (when I get time....)


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