On Wednesday, 30 July 2014 at 14:59:38 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
On 7/30/14, 2:22 AM, "Marc Schütz" <[email protected]>" wrote:
On Tuesday, 29 July 2014 at 23:09:28 UTC, Robert burner
Schadek wrote:
On Tuesday, 29 July 2014 at 06:09:25 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
4. Replace defaultLogger with theLog. "Logger" is a word,
but one
that means "lumberjack" so it doesn't have the appropriate
semantics.
The use is generally acceptable as a nice play on words and
as a
disambiguator between the verb "to log" and the noun "log".
When we
actually want to talk about the current log in an
application, we
should, however, call it "the log". This is negotiable.
I really don't care how a global Logger instance is called.
Anyone
else has an opinion on this? Otherwise Andrei wins.
I don't see anything wrong with "logger". A "driver" is
something that
drives (a device), a "logger" is something that logs.
Such logic doesn't apply to vocabularies. Is an "irater"
someone who irates, a "messer" someone who creates a mess etc?
Yes. It's called "derivation" in linguistics. It works in this
case, because "-er" is a semi-productive suffix, which produces
new nouns (called "nomina agentis") that refer to the "do-er",
i.e. either a person, like the other meaning of "logger", or a
tool, e.g. "box cutter". It is semi-productive, because as you
noted, some derivations indeed sound odd and are almost never
used.
But this is getting way off-topic. My main point is that it's
easy to understand, and it has lots of precedence in other
software.
