I have written a Perl module that redirects the the output of STDOUT and STDERR to a file very easily. For example: 
use Auto::Log;

my $log = new Auto::Log, "some.log";
...Write some code here...
print "INFO: This gets printed to the log file"
$log->DESTROY;

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One could also use the log file in tee mode using a simple option.

I wanted to hear from users as to how they feel about this. What do you think? Do you think you'd like to use such a Perl module?

The principal use of this module is that all that a user ever needs to do is to use the print, or warn statements. One doesn't have to open a new file using open() or anything. In my opinion this saves effort for a regular programmer who wants to get code written fast.

Let me know what you think though.

Also, please do give some suggestions for the module name. Do you like the name 'Auto::Log'?

Balaji

In reply to RFC: Automatic logger module by balajiram

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