Re: Generators (iterators) for Gnu Emacs

[Dmitry Gutov]

Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:

>> Common Lisp solved this problem 20 years ago with namespaces. We should
>> just implement CL namespaces instead of trying to shoehorn Smalltalk
>> into the language. Would you accept a CL packages implementation?
>
> Last time this was discussed (a year ago, maybe?), we neded turning it
> down, mostly because `M-x grep RET' can't be used for find-definition
> and find-uses.

Could we revisit this discussion, maybe? Having a Lisp VM at the core of
Emacs means we don't need to use grep for find-definition.

And find-uses can be implemented in a lisp-only namespace-aware
searching function.

Clojure (a rather popular Lisp) uses what sounds to be a similar
packages system, and the popular editing environments implement both
above operations without considerable problems.