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Article #4153Re: Modula2's godawful IO.
From: Duke Robillard
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 1988 01:58
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 1988 01:58
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In article <96@lzaz.ATT.COM> bds@lzaz.ATT.COM (BRUCE SZABLAK) writes:
>In article <535@m10ux.UUCP>, rgr@m10ux.UUCP (Duke Robillard) writes:
>> I hate C as much as the next guy, but it seems to me that printf is
>> the solution.
>
>I like C++'s overloading of the << and >> operator's even better than
>printf. It allows you to define custom print routines for each structure
>(class) declared, and then to print (to stdout for example) you do:
> cout << god_awful_structure_instance;
Yeah, but that doesn't help me print out an error message, two strings,
and an integer return code. I don't want to have to write a method
for every print....
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!cmcl2!nrl-cmf!mailrus!umix!umich!mibte!gamma!ulysses!mhuxo!mhuxu!mhuxi!mhuxh!mhuxt!m10ux!rgr From: rgr@m10ux.UUCP (Duke Robillard) Newsgroups: comp.lang.modula2,comp.lang.misc,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.pascal Subject: Re: Modula2's godawful IO. Message-ID: <547@m10ux.UUCP> Date: 12 Apr 88 01:58:23 GMT References: <764@ndsuvax.UUCP> <535@m10ux.UUCP> <96@lzaz.ATT.COM> Reply-To: rgr@m10ux.UUCP (Duke Robillard) Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Murray Hill Lines: 20