Why it is so difficult for Apple dev team to maintain consistent naming of their APIs?
- The function is called
fatalError(_:file:line:) - The corresponding
Loogger.Levelis calledcritical. Why notfatal?
Is Ali Ozer still working at Apple to kick the a*s of new developers?
I do not assume that either the function or the log level will be renamed. But I hope someone will take care of details (in the future).
P.S. I am developing on NeXTStep since 1990. There were times when APIs were so consistent, one could guess them almost 100% correctly. It will benefit the community if this would be true today as well.
Why not fatal?
Because it’s not the same thing. The fatal in fatalError(…) is pretty definitive: That routine does not return.
OTOH, the critical logging APIs don’t share that characteristic. Consider this:
Logger().critical("Something bad happened")
Logger().critical("Something else bad happened")
You will see both log entries.
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