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so I would have something on L249 and you would have it on L321? nonsense.

Yeah, you'd likely need some other way to refer so a position in the code than the line number. Maybe an anchor (like html) or a path in the syntax tree.

These tools already exist: JavaScript tools like minfiers or CoffeeScript can generate source maps which map code lines from one format to code lines in another format.

http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/developertools/source...

but they are used for debugging, not bi-directional transformation between two incompatible sources.

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