Review of Jose Armando Garcia Sancio's std.log

[Mikael Lindsten]

On Monday, 27 February 2012 at 18:10:15 UTC, Kalle Svensson wrote:
> * I agree that it is a good idea just to use few log levels.
>
> * I think is it is a misstake not to let formatting of the whole
> log message be pluggable (i.e. not the free text message the
> programmer writes). If I have created a special RFC5424 
> formatter
> (with MSGID and STRUCTURED-DATA fields set according to the will
> of my corporate masters) I want to resuse it in both the
> FileLogger and a future TcpLogger without having to use
> inheritance. Your "line format" formatter in FileLogger is a 
> good
> default formatter though.

I second what Kalle Svensson is saying.

My belief is that when there are many log levels, people don't 
use them as intended or only use a subset of them, often a 
combination.


/ Mikael