> Does it make sense to have a separate syntax table being built by a 3rd > party product? JRefactory probably re-builds it every time the > user invokes > it. JDEE's syntax table is maintained real-time, right? Wouldn't it make > more sense to reinvent the wheel? :) It would also open new > avenues for the > JDEE, I presume. (Such as having a nice, internal (god forbid, real-time, > i.e., active as you type) code-beautifier, maybe a UML generator in the > future, etc.)
I agree. If you are going to build an AST, please only do it once and provide hooks for any package to use it .... andy
