Voting: std.logger

Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Tue Jul 29 16:55:04 PDT 2014


On 7/29/14, 4:16 PM, H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 11:09:27PM +0000, Robert burner Schadek via Digitalmars-d wrote:
>> On Tuesday, 29 July 2014 at 06:09:25 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> [...]
>>> 4. Replace defaultLogger with theLog. "Logger" is a word, but one
>>> that means "lumberjack" so it doesn't have the appropriate semantics.
>>> The use is generally acceptable as a nice play on words and as a
>>> disambiguator between the verb "to log" and the noun "log". When we
>>> actually want to talk about the current log in an application, we
>>> should, however, call it "the log". This is negotiable.
>>
>> I really don't care how a global Logger instance is called. Anyone
>> else has an opinion on this? Otherwise Andrei wins.
> [...]
>
> I propose 'stdlog'.

I thought of the same but then rejected it - stdlog looks like offering 
the same interface as stdout and stderr. Nevertheless it's a sensible 
choice, too. -- Andrei



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