Review of Jose Armando Garcia Sancio's std.log

[Sean Kelly]

Sorry. For some reason I thought info was callable directly without the leading log portion. 

On Mar 6, 2012, at 1:37 PM, Jose Armando Garcia <jsancio at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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