[racket] 5.3's "mzc optimizer" log-debug, and log "facility" in general

Thanks for these great new features!

A (logger-out name) form for provide, exports all functions generated by
define-logger might be useful too.

Tobias



On Fri, 07 Sep 2012 16:28:13 +0200, Matthew Flatt <mflatt at cs.utah.edu>  
wrote:

> Based on the discussion, plus some extra off-list discussion with Greg,
> I've made the following changes:
>
>  * The `log-error', etc. forms still treat a single subexpression as a
>    literal string for the log message, but now they treat multiple
>    subexpressions as arguments to `format'.
>
>    This change balances backward compatibility, convenience, and
>    interaction with the new `racket/format' library (which I'll post
>    about on the dev list).
>
>  * Add `define-logger', where
>
>      (define-logger zoo)
>
>    binds
>
>      log-zoo-error
>      log-zoo-warning
>      ...
>
>    that write to a logger that is created a child of `(current-logger)'
>    with the name 'zoo.
>
>    Unlike what I suggested before, the `define-logger' form doesn't
>    create a parameter and it doesn't inspect environment variables.
>    Those ideas were on the wrong track --- trying to filter at the
>    producer side, instead of the consumer side of logging.
>
>  * Changed `make-log-receiver' to accept a sequence of level symbols
>    and name symbols. For example,
>
>       (make-log-receiver logger 'debug 'GC 'error)
>
>    receives 'debug level events from children of `logger' that are
>    named 'GC, and it receives 'error events from all other loggers
>    under `logger'.
>
>    The logger name in a receiver affects `log-level?' queries in the
>    way that you'd expect, which avoids unnecessary work on the producer
>    side while keeping consumers in control.
>
>  * Changed -W, -L, PLTSTDERR, and PLTSYSLOG to allow specifications
>    like "debug at GC error", which is analogous to the `make-log-receiver'
>    call above. That is, a level can be suffixed with "@" and a logger
>    name to restrict the level specification to apply to a logger name.
>
>    Note that you can use
>      "debug none at optimizer"
>    to see all debug messages except those from 'optimizer, since a
>    level without a name applies only to loggers that are not otherwise
>    mentioned.
>
>    This change is based on Neil's suggestion, but with a syntax that I
>    find more suggestive and more in parallel to `make-log-receiver'.
>
>  * Changed the GC to log messages to a 'GC logger, the optimizer to log
>    to an 'optimizer logger, and the futures subsystem to log to a
>    'future logger.
>
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