[Dancer-users] Dancer2 - feature change request

[Puneet Kishor]

On Oct 21, 2011, at 12:21 PM, Brian E. Lozier wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 10:09 AM, Flavio Poletti <polettix at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 11:55 AM, Richard Huxton <dev at archonet.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> At the moment, the logging levels are exposed directly (debug, warning,
>>> error). All the major logging modules seem to expose a single object
>>> (Log::Log4perl, Log::Dispatch, Log::Any etc). Doing similar would make
>>> logging more consistent across dancer and my non-web modules.
>>> 
>>> To be explicit, I'm suggesting this:
>>> debug("current id = $id")
>>> would become:
>>> log->debug("current id = $id")
>>> 
>>> It's a purely cosmetic change at one level, but it does:
>>> 1. Reduce namespace pollution
>>> 2. Allow for alternative log-levels
>>> 
>> 
>> Namespace pollution is - for good or bad - what Dancer is about; otherwise,
>> there would be no DSL. I like the idea of having one-off functions for
>> logging as for anything else, even if I like Log::Log4perl and I usually
>> avoid Dancer's internal debugging. IMHO your proposal should go on the
>> Plugin side (e.g. Dancer::Plugin::Log::Log4perl)
>> 
> 
> Everyone keeps talking about "DSL" -- what is that?  Last time I used DSL it
> was for getting internet access through the phone company.  (and don't use
> google to search for "define dsl" at work, you don't want to see the urban
> dictionary result)
> 
> 


Domain Specific Language. Besides, that I am with you... have no idea what that means.

Puneet.