Re: Generators (iterators) for Gnu Emacs

From: Richard Stallman Subject: Re: Generators (iterators) for Gnu Emacs Date: Mon, 08 Dec 2014 15:59:22 -0500

[[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > I wonder whether perhaps Richard ran into the need to use prefixes > so much because he was implementing the CL package system, and not > just making normal use of it. Just a conjecture. I implemented all the Common Lisp features (of which the package system was one) in the Lisp Machine operating system, which included lots of programs to do lots of things. (An Emacs-like editor was one of them.) In practice, the goal of using names without prefixes via importing namespace did not work out. 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. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation 51 Franklin St Boston MA 02110 USA www.fsf.org www.gnu.org Skype: No way! That's nonfree (freedom-denying) software. Use Ekiga or an ordinary phone call.