<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <title></title> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Eli Barzilay wrote at 05/16/2009 02:50 PM: <blockquote cite="mid:18959.2828.7218.63202@winooski.ccs.neu.edu" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">On May 16, Neil Van Dyke wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Actually, I suspect there is enough information before the variable rename occurs that invalidating the existing Check Syntax information is not necessary -- just update the name and update the positional information for every piece of syntax after the first occurrence. </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> But (bad) macros can change their behavior based on the names. </pre> </blockquote> <br> Drat, I forgot about bad macros.  I suppose one could detect the (unusual?) case of bad macro use and fall back to the slow way of doing things.<br> <br> Or, perhaps full Syntax Check can be sped up, and there's no point in special case updates after source changes like renames.<br> <br> <div class="moz-signature">-- <br> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.neilvandyke.org/">http://www.neilvandyke.org/</a><br> <br> </div> </body> </html>