From: dblack@...
Date: 2003-08-01T21:35:53+09:00
Subject: Re: ANN: debugprint

Hi --

On Fri, 1 Aug 2003, Ben Giddings wrote:

> On Friday, August 1, 2003, at 12:23  AM, Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:
> > How about direct messages to $stderr?
>
> Actually, how about debug() goes to $stderr and info() goes to $stdout.
>   People mostly tend to do:
>
> puts("doing blah") if $VERBOSE
>
> rather than
>
> $stderr.puts("doing blah") if $VERBOSE
>
> Don't they?  Any opinions?

See Brian's answer for something more in-depth :-)  But I'd say
avoiding $stdout is a good idea.  You might be directing output
to a file or network client.  I've even come across cases where
I was told that STDOUT was not open for writing -- can't
remember exactly when or why, though.


David

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