Voting: std.logger

[linkrope via Digitalmars-d]

On Wednesday, 30 July 2014 at 18:08:12 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:
> 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

Yes: most of the time I should be happy with the default log 
object.
Call it "log" and the uses look great:

     log.error("something went wrong");