I observed this problem when I started using Lucene (ages ago) and it's a
shame this situation persists. In summary, it would be tremendously useful
if Query objects were fully mutable and offered a visitor pattern to allow
walking the query tree to facilitate rewriting. It would also be nice if
I observed this problem when I started using Lucene (ages ago) and it's a
shame this situation persists. In summary, it would be tremendously useful
if Query objects were fully mutable and offered a visitor pattern to allow
walking the query tree to facilitate rewriting. I could open a JIRA
issu
