Debug Messages [was: various]

[Matthias Andree]

On Tue, 22 Oct 2002, David Relson wrote:

> At 06:56 PM 10/22/02, Matthias Andree wrote:
> 
> >On Tue, 22 Oct 2002, Clint Adams wrote:
> >
> >> The change in -vv behavior has been causing me some consternation,
> >> especially when I am unfortunate enough to have to use a dialup.
> >> I think there is a fundamental problem in treating 'debug' the same way
> >> as 'verbose'.  I suggest keeping -v's for verbose and using another
> >> option for debug (too bad -d's taken).  Multiple -v's would, as now,
> >> increase verbosity, but the debug option would take the bitmask.
> >
> >-D is still available, and -x is not too uncommon for debugging flags.
> 
> As indicated earlier today, I have code that will allow verbose printing to 
> be turned on for a section of codee, e.g. GENERAL, LEXER, DATABASE, 
> etc.  I'm awaiting feedback ...

I missed that. Log message "classes" like these sound useful to me.

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Matthias Andree