Re: [nant-dev] Recursively expanded properties

[Ian M. <ianm@ActiveState.com>]

Shaw, Gerry wrote:

>For clarity here it is again.
>
>If you went:
>
><property name="alpha"   value="a"/>
><property name="bravo"   value="b"/>
><property name="charlie" value="c"/>
><property name="abc"     value="123/>
>
><echo message="${alpha}"/> 
>
>you would get (as you would expect):
>
>[echo] a
>
>If you went:
>
><echo message="${${alpha}bc}"/>
>
>
>You would get (something you might expect - I hope):
>
>[echo] 123
>

OK I get it now. Reading it before, it looked like ${${alpha}} was 
referencing the alpha key in some compound property - maybe I've been 
looking at too much perl code :) . So its just doing string substition. 
Seems reasonable but not somthing I'd need to use too often.

Ian

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