From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Generators (iterators) for Gnu Emacs Date: Mon, 08 Dec 2014 16:48:08 -0500 Message-ID: References: <877fy77zhp.fsf@web.de> <87k326d4ww.fsf@gmail.com> <877fy6rp2o.fsf@web.de> <548230FB.40307@dancol.org> <5482C872.5010304@dancol.org> <5483C537.3010707@dancol.org> <54840719.5080209@dancol.org> <87a92zmnv4.fsf@lifelogs.com> <5484FD09.60603@dancol.org> <9ae6762d-a52a-4a06-b2e9-dab893a22d38@default> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1418075336 25935 80.91.229.3 (8 Dec 2014 21:48:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2014 21:48:56 +0000 (UTC) Cc: dancol@dancol.org, Drew Adams , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Richard Stallman Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Dec 08 22:48:49 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 1Xy6Ai-0005u6-9N for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 08 Dec 2014 22:48:48 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36305 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xy6Ah-0007QU-UJ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 08 Dec 2014 16:48:47 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:48475) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xy6AC-0007Hh-HW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Dec 2014 16:48:23 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xy6A5-0002CA-0t for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Dec 2014 16:48:16 -0500 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.181]:21486) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xy6A4-0002Bt-Te; Mon, 08 Dec 2014 16:48:08 -0500 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AjwPAOwQflRFxLi7/2dsb2JhbABbgweDYIVaxR0EAgKBJBcBAQEBAQF8hAMBAQMBViMFCwsOJhIUGA0kiEoJ1lkBAQEBBgEBAQEekG8HhEgFiwGkLoF4hBkhgncBAQE X-IPAS-Result: AjwPAOwQflRFxLi7/2dsb2JhbABbgweDYIVaxR0EAgKBJBcBAQEBAQF8hAMBAQMBViMFCwsOJhIUGA0kiEoJ1lkBAQEBBgEBAQEekG8HhEgFiwGkLoF4hBkhgncBAQE X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.07,502,1413259200"; d="scan'208";a="99904078" Original-Received: from 69-196-184-187.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO ceviche.home) ([69.196.184.187]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA; 08 Dec 2014 16:48:08 -0500 Original-Received: by ceviche.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 2C4A166125; Mon, 8 Dec 2014 16:48:08 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Mon, 08 Dec 2014 15:59:22 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 206.248.154.181 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:179484 Archived-At: > I make the conjecture that name space importing is convenient when you > have lots of small modules, each with its own name space and not many > names, and each referring to just a few other modules. That's not how > the Lisp Machine system was written, and it's also mostly not how > Emacs was written. In languages like SML, the common style is to always use qualified names, tho the modules used in a file get locally renamed to use shorter prefixes. Stefan