[plt-dev] logging: strings vs. sexps

I think Eli's asking 'why not do (log-info (format "~s" my-sexp))?'. Right?

Robby

On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 12:07 PM, Eli Barzilay <eli at barzilay.org> wrote:
> On Feb 19, Dave Herman wrote:
>> The `log-message' procedure (etc.) would need to be generalized from
>> taking a string to taking an S-expression, but this would require
>> one backwards-incompatible change: the system would have to `write'
>> the data, not `display' it. Otherwise you'd get entries like
>>
>>      (foo #t 42 don't tell anyone. hello, world)
>>
>> Logging is still a pretty new feature, so I bet it's not too late to
>> make this change. Opinions?
>
> But the thing that actually goes out to the log *is* just a string, so
> the above suggestion makes it impossible to use it.  IOW, writing
> strings allow writing sexprs but not the other way.  IYOW, you can
> write sexprs now, but given that change you won't be able to write
> strings.
>
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