RMS on why Emacs Lisp doesn ' t has namespace

Re:generators (iterators) for Gnu Emacs

from:	Richard Stallman
Subject:	Re:generators (iterators) for Gnu Emacs
Date:	Mon, 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 p  Ackage system, and not > just making normal use of it. Just a conjecture. I implemented all the Common Lisp features (of which the Packagesystem is one) in the Lisp Machine operating system, whic  H Includedlots of programs to do lots of things. (An emacs-like editor was oneof them.) In practice, the goal of using names without prefixes via Importingnamespace does not work out. I make the conjecture that name space importing are convenient when youhave lots of small modules, each with its own name s  Pace and not manynames, and each referring to just a few the other modules. That's not howthe Lisp machine system was written, and it's also mostly not Howemacs waswritten.--Dr Richard stallmanpresident, free software Foundation51 Franklin Stboston MA 02110usawww.fsf.org Www.gnu.orgS Kype:no way!  That ' s nonfree (freedom-denying) software. Use Ekiga or a ordinary phone call.

RMS on why Emacs Lisp doesn ' t has namespace