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Posted to dev@ant.apache.org by Paul King <ki...@asert.com.au> on 2003/11/18 12:48:01 UTC

Re: [VOTE] macrodef - do attributes as properties or substitution s

Jan.Materne@rzf.fin-nrw.de wrote:
>>If macrodef attribute are to be implements as substitutions, what
>>should be the notation? (where x is the attribute name)
>>
> 
>   [ ] as ${x} (look like ant properties)      confusion with 'real'
> properties
>   [ ] as $(x)                                 to close to A
>   [ ] as @x                                   I miss the brackets
>   [ ] as ${attribute:x}                       too long
>   [X] as @{x}                                 ok, close to A but seeable
> different
>   [ ] some thing else                         nothing in my mind to that

Has someone ruled out $${x}? Or does that conflict with
using $$ as some kind of escape sequence for $?


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