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From: bds@lzaz.ATT.COM (BRUCE SZABLAK)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.modula2,comp.lang.misc,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: Modula2's godawful IO.
Message-ID: <99@lzaz.ATT.COM>
Date: 12 Apr 88 18:21:41 GMT
References: <764@ndsuvax.UUCP> <535@m10ux.UUCP> <96@lzaz.ATT.COM> <547@m10ux.UUCP>
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Summary: Is done for you.

In article <547@m10ux.UUCP>, rgr@m10ux.UUCP (Duke Robillard) writes:
> In article <96@lzaz.ATT.COM> bds@lzaz.ATT.COM (BRUCE SZABLAK) writes:
> >I like C++'s overloading of the << and >> operator's even better ...
> 
> 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....
> 

In C++:

#include <stream.h>

Then:
...
  cout << "error message " << string1 << " " << string2 << " " << rc;
...

The header file defines printing for the ususal types.