[m-dev.] logging proposal

[Mark Brown]

On 01-Mar-2006, Ian MacLarty <maclarty at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> The thing that bothers me about the 'debug [!IO] (...)' syntax is that 
> there are always only two variables in the square brackets and square 
> brackets are normally used for arbitrary length lists.  Perhaps it 
> should be 'debug {!IO} (...)'?

That's the thing that bothers me most about my suggestion too.

Curly braces can be used for arbitrary length tuples, though, so if we
want something else then I'd suggest using arguments for the "quantifier":

	debug(!IO) ( ... )

but I think I prefer the list syntax.

Cheers,
Mark.

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