Why does Log not have get/setIdent() functions?

Here's my current implementation. I have a superclass that sets $this->log in it's constructor using &Log::singleton. My subclasses then change _ident to give a more meaningful log message in the output. So - my questions are: - should Log have get/setIdent (I've current modified Log.php with these) - is there a better way to handle this issue instead? - I was just trying to avoid setting the log in each subclass, to make it look a bit cleaner. neko