std.experimental.logger formal review round 3
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Sun Nov 2 13:07:11 PST 2014
On Sunday, 2 November 2014 at 18:42:20 UTC, David Nadlinger wrote:
> Imagine somebody has a type that cannot be @trusted because of
> whatever reason. Maybe because it's legacy code, maybe it uses
> resources it does not manage, … If you forcibly make logf
> @safe, then this type cannot be used with logf without some
> crazy workaround (simply using to!string might produce an
> unneeded allocation if the type uses the sink-delegate
> signature for toString).
>
> Why not leave this up to the compiler and support more use
> cases without degrading the experience for @safe clients?
>
> David
You mean something like user type toString() which is
legitimately @system and can't be made @trusted? Yes, this makes
sense. Will need to also add tests for that.
Consider me convinced :)
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