How long do the Cypress objects live?

[bpieber]

Are they only instantiated for when reading and writing respectively? Or are they kept around during normal development?

[dalehenrich]

They are created for reading/writing/loading/unloading and then tossed ... Remember Cypress is not intended to be the primary import/export mechanism for a dialect. It could be integrated into the development environment for a dialect in which case some of the objects might have reasons for living longer ... primarily the Definition structure I assume ... but if that happens the Definition classes will have a tight coupling to the dialect and will evolve along wit the the dialect (another reason for keeping the Structure separate:).