cleaned up SetLoggingLevel

levellogger.go

@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ import (
 	"runtime/debug"
 )
 
+// changed to return a pointer to a new LevelLogger
 func NewLevelLogger(out io.Writer, level LogLevel) *LevelLogger {
 
 	ll := &LevelLogger{}
@@ -189,9 +190,6 @@ func (ll *LevelLogger) SetFlags(logname string, newFlags int) {
 }
 
 func (ll *LevelLogger) SetLoggingLevel(l int) {
-	if l < 0 || l > 8 {
-		ll.CurrentLevel = 4 // default
-	} else {
 	switch l {
 	case 0:
 		ll.CurrentLevel = LevelLoggerOff
@@ -215,7 +213,6 @@ func (ll *LevelLogger) SetLoggingLevel(l int) {
 		ll.CurrentLevel = InfoLevel
 	}
 }
-}
 
 func (ll *LevelLogger) Blank(n int) {
 	outs := " "