On Tuesday, March 06, 2012 08:46:14 Jacob Carlborg wrote: > On 2012-03-06 02:32, Jonathan M Davis wrote: > > On Tuesday, March 06, 2012 02:22:05 so wrote: > >> That is not a counter-argument to something related to this > >> library but everything that lies in global namespace. > >> At its first state both severity levels and the "log" was in > >> global namespace. Now only severity levels. > >> > >> You are also overlooking one crucial fact that this library will > >> be part of phobos, standard library. Which requires everyone to > >> adopt. When you see codes like this (below), you don't blame > >> standard library designers do you? > >> > >> using namespace std; > >> int cout; > > > > Except that cout is not exactly something that would be considered a > > normal > > variable name. Something like info _is_. This logging module is taking > > incredibly common names and shoving them as far into the global namespace > > as anything can go in D which isn't a compiler built-in. _Not_ a good > > idea IMHO - not without good reason. And I really don't think that this > > merits it. log!info(msg) would work just fine and would be _far_ better. > > > > - Jonathan M Davis > > The user can then alias "log!info" to "info" if he/she wants to.
The user can do whatever aliases they want. It's just that we shouldn't unnecessarily use really common names at the top level, since then they'll conflict with a lot of stuff. - Jonathan M Davis
