Voting: std.logger

[Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d]

On 7/30/14, 10:50 AM, linkrope wrote:
> On Wednesday, 30 July 2014 at 17:01:39 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> On 7/30/14, 8:16 AM, Kagamin wrote:
>>> On Wednesday, 30 July 2014 at 14:59:38 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>>>> Such logic doesn't apply to vocabularies.
>>>
>>> According to my vocabulary, a logger is something that logs. Didn't hear
>>> about irater, and messer sounds like a German word.
>>
>> Yah but the log object, i.e. the thing you log things in (the paper
>> log on a ship etc) is "a log", not "a logger". A "logger" would be the
>> person writing into the log.
>>
>> So the appropriate name for the default log object is "defaultLog" not
>> "defaultLogger", or "stdlog" not "stdlogger". The better choice is
>> also shorter.
>>
>>
>> Andrei
>
> Even shorter would be "log".
> That would be better than enabling
>
>      log.info(...);
>
> via the already proposed
>
>      import log = std.logger;
>
> The only obstacle is the current "log" function.
> But do we really need the free log functions? For UFCS?
>
> Otherwise
>
>      alias info = log.info;
>
> would do the trick.

But here we're discussing the name of the default log object... -- Andrei