[slf4j-dev] Re: TRACE level

[robert burrell donkin]

On Tue, 2005-07-05 at 18:14 +0200, Ceki Gülcü wrote:
> At 04:43 PM 7/5/2005, Greg Wilkins wrote:
> 
> >Ceki,
> >
> >I'm a bit both ways about the marker mechanism.
> >On one level I see that it is cool and flexible - I specially like the nested
> >marker bit.   Markers are a bit like log levels - except a hierarchical name
> >space is easier to manage than a numeric space.
> >
> >But then I see some problems....
> >
> >
> >Firstly - I can see how it applies to debug, but I don't think it
> >applies well to info, warn, error, etc.
> >I would never say:
> >
> >      logger.warn(HEADER,"msg",e);
> >
> >So do markers only apply to debug?
> 
> No, markers can apply to all levels. 

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+1

ceki posted a number of examples that had struck me before his reply. 

a more elegant and compact solution to the issue of multiple levels of
details encourages wider adoption. 

- robert