LogLevel [was std.experimental.logger formal review round 3]

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On Thursday, 4 December 2014 at 11:02:39 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote:
> It's a nice idea for generic feature testing flags, but it's a 
> lot of implementation work in the compiler. And it seems odd to 
> implement a big part of a library in the compiler.

I think D lacks a generic project configuration mechanism. I 
generally want configurations to be located in one or at least a 
few files that are easy to modify and which can have tools 
written for them. So yes, this should not be written for logger 
alone.

I don't know how much work it is for the compiler, but I suspect 
a lot of it could be written as a compiler extension in D that 
communicates with the C++ compiler core.

It would be very useful for server programmers to be able to swap 
configuration for the whole program on a live server when you 
detect a problem. Third parties could create a GUI tool for 
managing configuration settings with automatic transfer of new 
bitpatterns over tcp/udp, or even automatic rebuilds.