On 03/15/2010 09:32 PM, Stewart, Robert wrote:
Andrey Semashev wrote:
On 03/15/2010 01:45 PM, Vladimir Prus wrote:
* Why is trivial logging printing the sequental number of each log message? I don't think this helps anything.
Record identifiers proved to be very useful in communication, surrounding the piece of log. It's much easier to write "see, there's that error in line 2764" than to go for lengthy explanations of how to find it in the file.
Since there's no binary logging, the output is likely to be written to a file. I can use many means to determine a line number from the contents of a text file without embedding a line number proxy.
Maybe, you're right.
Finally, I think by default, everybody things of logging as glorified std::cout, so trivial logging better print messages to console, not to a file.
I disagree. First, you don't need the library to spam the console.
Who are you to say what we need WRT the console? We frequently write output to stderr with the express intention of redirecting it to a file or pipeline.
My point was that you can simply write to stderr without messing with the library. Writing to a file is a more complicated task, and the library provides an easy way to solve it + a few bonuses.