[plt-dev] logging: strings vs. sexps

From: Carl Eastlund (carl.eastlund at gmail.com)
Date: Thu Feb 19 16:15:55 EST 2009

On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 4:13 PM, Grant Rettke <grettke at acm.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 2:51 PM, Robby Findler
> <robby at eecs.northwestern.edu> wrote:
>> On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 2:50 PM, Grant Rettke <grettke at acm.org> wrote:
>>> Is (log-info-sexpr ...) less boring?
>>>
>>
>> It is such a short macro; do we really need to add 3 more exports to
>> scheme/base for that?
>
> Look at it this way:
>
> you guys, the experts on knowing how to do this "the right way", write
> it once and add three exports
>
> vs.
>
> everyone and their brother writing their own variation of it

vs.

Someone writes it in a planet package; everyone and their brother imports it.

-- 
Carl Eastlund


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