>
> On Sep 8, 2007, at 1:19 PM, Mike Schilli wrote:
>
> > On Fri, 7 Sep 2007, Jonathan Swartz wrote:
> >
> > I'd be interested in feedback on a proposed module, Log::Abstract,
> > described here:
> >
> > http://use.perl.org/~jonswar/journal/34366
>
> ...
>
> By the way, I don't agree that "For small modules that want to
> minimize dependencies, depending on Log4perl (for example) is a
> non-starter." The Log4perl core doesn't have dependencies other
> than perl's core modules.
Fair enough.
>
> One thing missing from your proposal is Log4perl's :easy mode
> [sourceforge.net]. If you think about it, getting a logger and
> calling its method is a lot of typing, given that you just want
> to log something. That's why in Log4perl you can use
>
> DEBUG "Log this!";
>
> and you're done. No getting a logger, no method calling, no
> category passing. It's all automatic. Behind the scenes, it gets
> a 'stealth logger' with the category set to the current package
> and calls the appropriate logging method on it. This feature is
> huge. I'm using it almost exclusively in everything I write.
>
> Any chance of adding that?
Did you see this in the posting?
As a convenient shorthand, you can use
package Foo;
use Log::Abstract qw($log);
to create the logger, which is equivalent to the first example
except that $log is
(necessarily) a package-scoped rather than lexical variable.
So this creates a logger for you with the category set to the current
package, similar to easy mode. The syntax is pretty minimal. The
problem I have with the DEBUG etc keywords is that they promote
inefficient behavior. e.g.
DEBUG "Current arguments: " . Dumper([EMAIL PROTECTED]);
will take the performance hit for Dumper() even when debug logging
isn't turned on. This may be fine for a particular application where
performance is not an issue, but I would never want to encourage any
CPAN module author to do this.
In fact, in this thread on perl.module-authors,
http://groups.google.com/group/perl.module-authors/msg/
cbd5a168d5d780a8?hl=en&
it was suggested that even the usual "fast" $log->is_debug() check is
too much of a hit. So I proposed we export a live $log_is_debug
variable that would change dynamically to reflect the current level.
I suppose one could combine the syntaxes:
DEBUG "Current arguments: " . Dumper([EMAIL PROTECTED]) if $log_is_debug;
but at this point you are only saving 6 characters or so.
>
> One thing to watch out for is performance. People don't want
> their applications to slow down just because a module has a
> logging capability.
Exactly my point above. :)
Thanks for your positive feedback! I will definitely need to have the
support of major logging frameworks such as log4perl for this module
to be a success.
Best,
Jon
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