Log entry markup

Earlier this year, I worked for an engineer by the name of Tushar. He’s a very bright guy and probably one of the best software engineers I’ve ever worked with. He uses the following ‘mark-up’ scheme to help identify log file entries.

===	Marks the start of a process (where a process may comprise several methods/objects).
…	Information; useful information that isn’t an error
>>>	Marks the start of a function/method
<<<	Marks the end of a function/method
ooo	Warning: A warning entry; more serious than ‘Information’ but less serious than an error
***	An error or exception

When you’re formatting your log entry, simply add the appropriate marker at the beginning of the string.

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