Review of Jose Armando Garcia Sancio's std.log

Jonathan M Davis jmdavisProg at gmx.com
Mon Mar 5 23:54:39 PST 2012


On Tuesday, March 06, 2012 08:46:14 Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> On 2012-03-06 02:32, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> > On Tuesday, March 06, 2012 02:22:05 so wrote:
> >> That is not a counter-argument to something related to this
> >> library but everything that lies in global namespace.
> >> At its first state both severity levels and the "log" was in
> >> global namespace. Now only severity levels.
> >> 
> >> You are also overlooking one crucial fact that this library will
> >> be part of phobos, standard library. Which requires everyone to
> >> adopt. When you see codes like this (below), you don't blame
> >> standard library designers do you?
> >> 
> >> using namespace std;
> >> int cout;
> > 
> > Except that cout is not exactly something that would be considered a
> > normal
> > variable name. Something like info _is_. This logging module is taking
> > incredibly common names and shoving them as far into the global namespace
> > as anything can go in D which isn't a compiler built-in. _Not_ a good
> > idea IMHO - not without good reason. And I really don't think that this
> > merits it. log!info(msg) would work just fine and would be _far_ better.
> > 
> > - Jonathan M Davis
> 
> The user can then alias "log!info" to "info" if he/she wants to.

The user can do whatever aliases they want. It's just that we shouldn't 
unnecessarily use really common names at the top level, since then they'll 
conflict with a lot of stuff.

- Jonathan M Davis


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