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NPE

PS: on the second try it works as usually. Maybe it was because I:

1) fastly create:

  private static final int NUMBER_OF_PHILOSOPHERS = 5;

2) And then I go fastly to main method and type 'fori<space>' so the java-model
might not have been fully synchronized?

Yes, you're right. It's caused be fast creating new method and using the
abbreviation in it. The source in not parsed at that time and abbreviation is
called in wrong context (class scope, not method scope). The exception thrown
when calling abbrev. in wrong context is already filed as issue 72301. The 2ns
problem - not parsing source when needed - is also reported (can not find number
now)

Thanks for your report

*** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 72301 ***

Ok, thanks.