• brvslvrnst@lemmy.ml
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    6 months ago

    See, both report and record signify different things in my mind. The original code was just printing to stdout.

    In my mind logMissingData makes more sense because it’s not actively sending anything; it’s just logging.

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      6 months ago

      I agree that report and record are different. To me record means it’s preserved in some managed way.

      The implementation has the ability to vary quite widely from simply printing to stdout, logging to a file, writing to a queue / database, and yet the same name will continue to reflect all those possibilities

      This makes it sound like the intent goes beyond logging, but not so far as recording. That’s how I come to ‘report’ as the correct verb.