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["Johan Hoffman" <jhoffman@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> Ola and I have been doing some work on the log system, mostly taking
> out parts that are not used and making some simplifications.
>
> The new log system will be used both by DOLFIN and PyCC (the Simula
> in-house code).
>
> Are there any objections to replacing the macros dolfin_error and
> dolfin_warning by functions? This means they will no longer be able to
> print "at line foo.cpp:xx bar()".
>
> The advantage will be that we can put them in namespace dolfin. Also,
> dolfin_error now throws an exception which means one can just fire up
> gdb and arrive at the line where the exception was thrown so printing
> the line number is not really necessary.

As long as one can easily get the line number through gdb, I am fine with
the change.

> Once the functions are in namespace dolfin, we can remove the dolfin_
> prefix (we don't need two prefixes dolfin::dolfin_).
>
> We will also be changing the name dolfin_info (dolfin::info) to
> something better, less vague. Is dolfin::message() good?

dolfin::message() sounds good to me.

/Johan


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