Gennadiy Rozental wrote:
My point is that the simple solution is not even worth implementing, and general solution is definitely out of scope of logging library.
I do not agree with you on this. Hex dumping is quite frequently required. So it's kinda waste to require every user to reimplement this. Even simplest dump could suffice in many cases.
Hex dump is useful, absolutely, but so is a database access library, but we don't wish it would be a part of the log library, do we? This may be a rough analogy, but as several stated, text formatting of data structures is something that a log *uses*, not *implements*. Sorry for butting in like this, but I strongly feel that hex dump is out of scope for a logging library, and would waste John's precious time, while he could spend it on something that belongs to logging. Yuval