Implementing std.log

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 5/7/11 3:43 PM, Jose Armando Garcia wrote:
> Hey folks,
>
> For the past couple of days I took the liberty of partially
> implementing a logging module for D.
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Nice work. Also thanks for contacting me offline.

As I mentioned I'd already decided I'll take a stab at implementing a 
logging module inspired in design from glog. I was tired of the endless 
discussions on what a logging API should look like. This ironically is 
leading now to an embarrassment of riches - we now have two proposals on 
the table. I subjectively prefer mine for the simple reason that it 
includes exactly what I wanted from a logging subsystem with a light syntax.

The documentation is at 
http://d-programming-language.org/phobos-prerelease/std_log.html.

The source code is at http://erdani.com/log.d, with informative title 
only; to compile the code you'd need some changes in std.format as well 
(I extended the positional parameter syntax to allow ranges of 
positions). Todos include slight refactoring to avoid bloat in generated 
code per call, OS portability (I only tested on OSX), and getting 
threading right by fixing the shared-related compiler bugs.

Looking forward to more discussion of the matter.


Andrei