AMDG Andrey Semashev wrote:
As already expressed by Tom, logging library is fairly basic component that should be useable by everybody. And lambda functions in current C++ in not something everybody know so forcing the user to pick between using lambda, and much more verbose non-lambda style does not help. <snip> Why cannot you provide and equally convenient ordinary functions?
Can you suggest a better interface? Because I can't imagine how to make it shorter, while keeping the other features intact.
Just have a function that returns the attribute or throws an att_not_found exception (Or whatever you want to call it). The library can catch this.
Of course I can use namespace aliases to alleviate the problem. However, I don't see how namespaces are necessary. Are there actually things with the same names in those different namespaces?
Yes. attr is a formatter and a filter, for example. There are "format" names in "formatters" and "keywords" namespaces. Perhaps other exist, I didn't examine the code thoroughly.
Is there a good reason that the same attr can't be both a formatter and a filter? In Christ, Steven Watanabe