From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Thierry Volpiatto Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Generators (iterators) for Gnu Emacs Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2014 06:47:11 +0100 Organization: Emacs Helm Message-ID: <87k326d4ww.fsf@gmail.com> References: <877fy77zhp.fsf@web.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1417758493 21739 80.91.229.3 (5 Dec 2014 05:48:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2014 05:48:13 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Dec 05 06:48:06 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XwlkK-0001Ob-0v for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 05 Dec 2014 06:48:04 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48905 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XwlkJ-0006LW-NT for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 05 Dec 2014 00:48:03 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:45850) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xwljv-0006BO-RN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Dec 2014 00:47:47 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xwljo-0004Sy-1V for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Dec 2014 00:47:39 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:39118) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xwljn-0004Qt-Ro for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Dec 2014 00:47:31 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Xwljk-000176-Um for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Dec 2014 06:47:28 +0100 Original-Received: from 37.162.201.70 ([37.162.201.70]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 05 Dec 2014 06:47:28 +0100 Original-Received: from thierry.volpiatto by 37.162.201.70 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 05 Dec 2014 06:47:28 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 19 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 37.162.201.70 User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:fXwA1+9zULO7vyndKbNTk17XFWM= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:178882 Archived-At: Michael Heerdegen writes: > Hello, > > I want to contribute a package about generators to Gnu Emacs. > > It is quite simple, but turned out to be surprisingly useful to have in > several situations. It is efficient and avoids recursion - iterating > across a generator's elements results in a simple `while' loop being > executed. > > Daniel Colascione suggested to me to rename the thing to "iterators.el", We already have iterator.el. -- Thierry Get my Gnupg key: gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 59F29997