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.
I would use
reportMissingDataSee, both
reportandrecordsignify different things in my mind. The original code was justprinting to stdout.In my mind
logMissingDatamakes more sense because it’s not actively sending anything; it’s just logging.I agree that report and record are different. To me record means it’s preserved in some managed way.
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.