Re: Generators (iterators) for Gnu Emacs

[Daniel Colascione]

On 12/05/2014 11:09 PM, Stefan Monnier wrote:
>> That aside, I'm not sure I agree with your namespace preferences. `yield' is
>> fundamentally a lexically-scoped macro.
> 
> The lexically scoped `yield' is OK.  But the global (defmacro yield ...)
> is not (tho, I'm OK with keeping it if wrapped in (unless (fboundp
> 'yield) ...)).
> 
>> I'd also strongly prefer using `next' as the iter-get function.
> 
> I know, but this one is out of the question.  All globally-visible names
> need to be namespace-clean.  So it can be `gen-next'.

It *is* "namespace-clean", as I explained above. It's ludicrous to
expect that all future additions to elisp include horribly long,
hyphenated names even when they're describing fundamental features of
the environment. It's `car', goddammit it, not `seq-list-car'.

The point is to minimize the possibility of collision with useful user
code, not to religiously ensure that all symbols match ^[a-z]+-[a-z-]+$

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