How those logs are outputted is stored in a global state called log configuration. So, I think the separation was done. How else do you want to separate that?
On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 12:20 PM, James Reeves <ja...@booleanknot.com> wrote: > On 25 July 2015 at 15:50, crocket <crockabisc...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Logging libraries seem to rely on a global config. This looks like a >> dangerous state that could blow up. >> I researched a little, and there seems to be reader monad and dependency >> injection, all of which feel awkard. >> >> Is there not a decent approach to passing log config without a global var? > > > One way to think of logging is that it's a way of monitoring a running > process. > > In an ideal world, we could simply log every memory interaction a process > makes, and then analyse that log to discover how the process is performing. > In practice that's infeasible, but it does provide a clue as to how we > should think about logging. > > Consider logging as a way of manually marking points of interest in an > application. From this point of view it makes sense that these markers > should be global in scope, for the same reason that vars are. > > However, I do think that we should separate how we monitor out code from how > those logs are actually outputted. I've been working on some ideas along > those lines, but nothing I'm entirely happy with, yet. > > - James > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Clojure" group. > To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com > Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your > first post. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "Clojure" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/clojure/9YiGAp6axcY/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
