Implementing std.log

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2011-05-09 19:34, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> On 5/9/11 12:14 PM, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
>> On 2011-05-09 17:49, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>>> On 5/9/11 10:37 AM, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
>>>> Isn't the name of the log file a little too verbose? Don't know if I'm
>>>> missing something but this doesn't seem so useful for long running
>>>> application that use logging. As far as I know you usually have one log
>>>> file per application and outputs the message along with the level and
>>>> date and time.
>>>
>>> I did what glog does. Going forward, there is a private static string
>>> for formatting file names using positional parameters. In the future I'm
>>> considering providing an API for changing that format string, which
>>> means the log file format will be user-definable. (Same about the format
>>> of individual messages - see the string constants fileNameFormat and
>>> format toward the top of log.d.) Positional parameters look a bit odd
>>> but they are quite flexible.
>>>
>>> Andrei
>>
>> I don't think the positional parameters are odd (C# has them with
>> another syntax and Tango uses the same syntax as C#), I think they're
>> very usable. Although the syntax you've chosen looks a little odd to me.
>> Wouldn't it make more sense to have the $ in front of the number instead
>> of behind, since the % is in front.
>
> I used the Posix positional format syntax, see
> http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/printf.html.
>
> Andrei

Ok, I see.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg