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From: Matt Benson <gudnabrsam@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Ant - <variable>
To: Vinicius Rosalen da Silva <vinicius@dcc.ufmg.br>
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Antelope's/Ant-Contrib's <variable> works exactly like
Ant's <property>, with the exception that it does not
fail if the property is already set.  This means it
can be used to redefine properties defined with
<property>.  It is available in the same contexts as
<property>.

-Matt

--- Vinicius Rosalen da Silva <vinicius@dcc.ufmg.br>
wrote:
> 
> Hi Matt,
> Can I use <variable> to declare a global variable?
> How?
> 
> Thanks very much
> Vinicius
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2003 11:02:58 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Matt Benson <gudnabrsam@yahoo.com>
> Reply-To: Ant Users List <user@ant.apache.org>
> To: Ant Users List <user@ant.apache.org>
> Subject: RE: Changing the properties value.
> 
> All:  Don't forget the other option that exists;
> Antelope has a <variable> task that behaves as a
> mutable property, taking advantage of the fact that
> the immutabiility of properties is only enforced by
> code.
> 
> -Matt
> 
> 


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