Oh jeez, here we go again.
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Jeffrey E. Care (carej@us.ibm.com)
WebSphere v7 Release Engineer
WebSphere Build Tooling Lead (Project Mantis)
bugzilla@apache.org wrote on 01/18/2006 07:23:37 AM:
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> Summary: Properties are immutable
> Product: Ant
> Version: 1.6.5
> Platform: All
> OS/Version: All
> Status: NEW
> Severity: enhancement
> Priority: P2
> Component: Core tasks
> AssignedTo: dev@ant.apache.org
> ReportedBy: vnicolici@zapp.ro
>
>
> The properties should not be immutable.
>
> The "property" task and other tasks that set properties should support
> a "overwrite" attribute with a default of "false".
>
> Sample usage:
>
> <property name="list-target" value="clean" overwrite="true" />
>
> IMHO the current behaviour causes more problems than benefits.
>
> I'm writing ANT scripts since 2004, and I still can't "get used", to
this
> extremely annoying behaviour.
>
> Just imagine how quickly the Java programming language would become
> extinct if
> the variables would become immutable after initialization.
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