On Sunday, 13 July 2014 at 12:12:46 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
On Sunday, 13 July 2014 at 11:57:26 UTC, Robert burner Schadek
wrote:
- The functions error(), info(), fatal(), etc. don't follow
the usual rule for functions to start with a verb. The
question is if saving three characters over logError() is
worth making the code more ambiguous for the outside reader
(e.g. "does error() throw an exception? or set some internal
error state?" "does fatal() terminate the process?")
if I change it back, people will argue that that is redundant
and unintuitive. Than I will change it back again and the
discussion starts again.
I think those functions are used so often that can be worth an
exception.
+1
And it has precursors in other logging APIs.
