Re: [shepherd] several patches that i deem ready

[Maxim Cournoyer]

Hi,

Zheng Junjie <zhengjunjie@iscas.ac.cn> writes:

> Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Hi Attila,
>>
>> Attila Lendvai <attila@lendvai.name> writes:
>>
>>>> About "cheaper code path when a log level is disabled at runtime",
>>>> perhaps it can be improved in guile-lib, but otherwise that's a nice
>>>> list. I just wish we had a good logging library in Guile and could stop
>>>> reinventing the wheel left and right.
>>>
>>>
>>> i've made my judgement that the logger in guile-lib was never applied
>>> seriously when i relized that it stores the enabled state in a
>>> hashtable (which must be looked up for every log statement).
>>>
>>> i made sure the log statements have a unique syntax, so the underlying
>>> machinery can be replaced easily later, and then i moved on.
>>
>> I guess if we were serious at giving Scheme/Guile a great logging
>> library we would try to design it with the help of everyone as a SRFI;
>> it could then be integrated to Guile and any other Scheme, benefiting
>> the ecosystem at large.  Is this something you could be interested in
>> trying?  I've found the Scheme community around SRFIs very knowledgeable
>> and helpful.
>>
>
> maybe can see srfi-215 Central Log Exchange
> [https://srfi.schemers.org/srfi-215/srfi-215.html]?

That's somewhat related, but is not an actually usable logging library,
just some standard means to dispatch them to various sinks, if I
recall my read of it.

-- 
Thanks,
Maxim