std.logger

[Robert Schadek]

On 08/24/2013 08:01 PM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> On Saturday, August 24, 2013 16:49:24 SomeDude wrote:
>> OTOH, they are used in just about every logging API ever devised.
>> Everybody knows what they mean. I just don't see the need to
>> reinvent these words and make them longer by adding log. I
>> seriously hate it.
>>
>> It clutters code (once you've read your thousand's log
>> instruction, it hurts), adds ugly and useless redundancy and
>> nothing else to its understanding. This alone is far worse than
>> not using verbs.
> Well, we're going to have to agree to disagree on that point. Functions are 
> supposed to be verbs. They're only nouns if they're properties, in which case, 
> they're emulating variables, which are nouns. And I'd consider following the 
> proper naming conventions like that to be far more important than saving a few 
> characters.
>
> - Jonathan M Davis
luckily all log functions are called log and logf now.