LogbackLoggingService's class Logger ?

[Tom Zeller]

On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 3:14 AM, Rod Widdowson <rdw at steadingsoftware.com> wrote:
>> In r6825 for IDP-77 where you added logging of the IdP version to the
>> LogbackLoggingService, did you have an explicit reason for not
>> following the "usual" pattern of defining the Logger as a class field?
>
> Ancient habit going back to the days when VMS booted in 750k.  I didn't see
> any reason to leave an object lieing around as a field on a long lived
> object when it was only going to be used once.  It was a knee jerk bit of
> code rather than anything profoundly thought out.  Sorry about that.

It's fine, I just didn't know, no worries.

> One day get Ian or myself to tell you about "Hamish Dewar and the free
> memory syscall" over a beer

Yes, and "exbed". I have no idea what that means :-)