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Nested property expansion shouldn't occur but does





------- Additional Comments From j_a_fernandez@yahoo.com  2004-06-03 10:32 -------

Well, the whole reason for not having nested property expansion is that the 
parser does not do recursive nesting of brakets, which means that it cannot
detect that you are in a nested situation. It it were able to detect the case,
then I am almost certain we would allow nested expansion instead forbid it.

Looking at your example, you have:
   ${${a}.${b}}
the syntax for a property is: <prop> --> '${' <name>'}'  and <name> --> [^}]*

which means the above gets interpreted as:
  '${' "${a" '}' '.' '${' "b" '}' '}'
- property "${a" does not exist so it is printed out textually
- property "b" does exists, hence it is expanded

If we change this to understand recursion, we may as well do nested expansions.

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