Review of Jose Armando Garcia Sancio's std.log

[Steven Schveighoffer]

On Tue, 06 Mar 2012 14:39:28 -0500, Jose Armando Garcia  
<jsancio at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 12:25 AM, Jonathan M Davis <jmdavisProg at gmx.com>  
> wrote:
>> On Tuesday, March 06, 2012 09:14:16 so wrote:
>>> On Tuesday, 6 March 2012 at 07:46:14 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
>>> > On 2012-03-06 02:32, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
>>> >
>>> > The user can then alias "log!info" to "info" if he/she wants to.
>>>
>>> Again, you are now forcing 2 common names instead of one as it is
>>> now.
>>> When you instantiate log!info where do you get "info" from?
>>
>> Yes. My mistake - probably because the time stuff typicall takes such a
>> template argument as string, which would make this log!"info"(msg).  
>> However,
>> adding _log_ isn't necessarily bad, given that this is std.log that  
>> we're
>> talking about. It's info and the rest that are the problem.
>>
> Seriously everyone. What are we spending some much effort on this?

Because naming is important.  It's very difficult to change names once  
something is released.  I seriously could care less about implementation  
(didn't even look at it).  That can be fixed.  Naming can't.

> What is wrong with:
>
> import log = std.log;
> log.info("cool");

What is wrong with

import std.log;
log.info("cool");

-Steve