Re: Generators (iterators) for Gnu Emacs

[Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>]

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  > I don't know Stefan's motives, but would love to see actual namespaces
  > in Emacs Lisp.

The idea sounds nice in theory, but in practice multiple name spaces
do not fit into Lisp very well.  Common Lisp packages are an unclean
kludge; this was clear to me when I implemented them in the 1980s in
the Lisp Machine.  It is impossible to use them in the way one would
wish to use them.

In practice, you have to write the package prefix whenever you refer
to a symbol that has one.  It might as well be part of the symbol name
itself.  Thus, packages complicate the language definition while
providing no benefit.

So in GNU Emacs I decided to make them part of the symbol name itself
and not have packages.

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