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[Andrew Haley]

On 1/16/24 20:52, Paul Sandoz wrote:
> 4. Enhancements to the Java source compiler to produce code models from
> its AST representation of Java source and store them in class files.
> We can model many Java programs, but not all. We will continue to expand
>   that set as we model more language constructs.

So this seems like a good time to ask a question that's been bothering me
since I first heard about Babylon.

Why not produce the code model from bytecode? Sure, you'd lose some stuff,
but as we all know there's enough in bytecode to produce runnable Java.

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