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"Shatzer, Larry" wrote:

> From the manual on the task <property>
> http://ant.apache.org/manual/CoreTasks/property.html
>
> Properties are immutable: whoever sets a property first freezes it for the
> rest of the build; they are most definately not variable.

That's true but a little misleading, in view of the fact that an <ant> or <antcall> caller can set a property
for the called target and the setting doesn't propagate back to the caller's environment. So
you can have a target algorithmically setting a property multiple times; these are just not really
the "same property".


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