The logging functions in std.log don't take a scope parameter anymore,
but use the .default scope. To provide your own scope, use the logging
functions in std.log.scoped(.some_other_scope).
As per nmichaels' suggestion: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/pull/6039#issuecomment-673148971
* Add short documentation to std.log.scoped and std.log.default
* Update the module documentation and example to explain the difference
between using explicit scopes, using a scoped logging namespace, and
using the default namespace
* Add a std.log.scoped function that returns a scoped logging struct
* Add a std.log.default struct that logs using the .default scope
Implementation of daurnimator's proposal:
https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/5943#issuecomment-669043489
Note that I named the function "scoped" instead of "scope" so as not to
clash with the scope parameter that is used everywhere; this seemed a
better solution to me than renaming the scope parameter to "s" or
"log_scope" or the like.
std.log provides 8 log levels and corresponding logging functions. It
allows the user to override the logging "backend" by defining root.log
and to override the default log level by defining root.log_level.
Logging functions accept a scope parameter which allows the implementer
of the logging "backend" to filter logging by library as well as level.
Using the standardized syslog [1] log levels ensures that std.log will
be flexible enough to work for as many use-cases as possible. If we were
to stick with only 3/4 log levels, std.log would be insufficient for
large and/or complex projects such as a kernel or display server.
[1]: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5424#section-6.2.1
