Re: Generators (iterators) for Gnu Emacs

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 12/08/2014 04:25 AM, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> > 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.
>
> I'm sure it can be made to work, with enough work.  But currently
>
>     M-x grep RET grep foo-bar {emacs,elpa}/**/*.el RET
>
> works pretty well, for *very* little effort.

Sure. In no way I'm trying to say that having to implement the above 
would be much of a benefit by itself.

It's a cost, for having a modern-ish import system.