Re: Generators (iterators) for Gnu Emacs

[Stefan Monnier]

> 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