Review of Jose Armando Garcia Sancio's std.log

[Jose Armando Garcia]

On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 12:43 PM, Sean Kelly <sean at invisibleduck.org> wrote:
> On Mar 6, 2012, at 11:39 AM, Jose Armando Garcia wrote:
>
>> Seriously everyone. What are we spending some much effort on this?
>> What is wrong with:
>>
>> import log = std.log;
>> log.info("cool");
>
> Why should the default be unqualified names?  Is this simply a desire to not change std.log so we can just get it in already?

What are you proposing?

struct Log {
  static alias log!Severity.info info;
  ...
}

I am not exactly sure when this idiom became popular. I don't know if
this is an C++ idiom or a Java idiom but I do know that it is a broken
hack. C++ developers use it because the name-spacing facility is
limiting. Java uses it because everything is a class and they don't
have the concept of compile time objects. We don't need this hack in
D. D's module mechanism make this C++/Java idiom unnecessary.


Thanks,
-Jose