From: Nicholas Seckar <nseckar@...>
Date: 2005-08-24T14:00:59+09:00
Subject: Re: The Chainsaw Infanticide Logger Manuever

Zedas, here's concept as discussed in #ruby-lang... Take note that I've 
reopened Logger. :P

class Logger
   # Dictate the way in which this logger should format the messages
   # it displays. This method requires a block. The block should return
   # formatted strings given severity, timestamp, msg, progname.
   #
   # Useless example:
   #
   # logger = Logger.new
   # logger.format do |severity, timestamp, msg, progname|
   #   "#{progname}@#{timestamp} - #{severity}::#{msg}"
   # end
   #
   def format(&format_proc)
     raise 'feed me a block dude' unless format_proc
     @format_proc = format_proc
   end

   # hackish use of *args, give me some love
   def format_message(*args)
     @format_proc ? @format_proc.call(*args) : super(*args)
   end
end