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John D. Casey <John.D.Casey@mail.sprint.com> wrote:

> Can I ask a slightly off-subject question about this type of thing? 
> Why doesn't Ant resolve the variables in an attribute of a task at
> runtime?

Because the definition of a data type is considered the runtime in
this context - we've promised to make Ant2 fully dynamic, so this is
going to change then and I'll commit a change that will allow data
types to be defined inside of targets during the next days.

Stefan