On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 2:22 PM, Austin Hastings<austin_hasti...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Mark J. Reed wrote: >> >> I'm all for not having any variety of log() in the default namespace. >> Regardless, mathematical functions should follow mathematical norms. >> Changing Perl tradition is one thing, but we have centuries, sometimes >> millennia, of tradition to deal with in the mathematical realm. It >> should not be violated lightly. >> >> > > That's okay. Preserve their thousands of years of historical legacy. Just > preserve it in a separate container. > > #! /usr/bin/perl6 > > say(log(1000, 10)); # Error - no such function "log" > > use Math::Simple; > > say(log(1000, 10)); # 2.9999999...
Ugh; no thanks. However, it occurs to me that when you log messages, you should specify where you're logging them as well as what they are. log(Str) might lead to ambiguous results; but IO.log(Str) should be pretty clear. But maybe I'm not understanding what people are wanting out of message logging. -- Jonathan "Dataweaver" Lang
