Re: Dcout for standard output

[David Lawrence <davidl@jlab.org>]

Hi Mark,

    Since you asked for cleverer ideas, I assume you will also entertain 
less clever ones. In that spirit, I offer:

#define dout std::cout
#define derr std::cerr

My $0.02.

Regards,
-David


Mark M. Ito wrote:
> Folks,
>
> As promised at a software meeting long-ago, I've checked in a simple 
> macro as a place holder for a future Hall D character 
> output/information stream. The file is trunk/src/include/Diostream.h 
> and the contents are as follows:
>
> ========================
>
> #ifndef _DIOSTREAM_H_
> #define _DIOSTREAM_H_
>
> // macro to redefine Dcout as the standard library's cout
>
> #include <iostream>
> #define Dcout std::cout
>
> #endif
>
> ========================
>
> The idea is that instead of using "cout", we use "Dcout". "D" stands 
> for Hall D, "c" stands for "character" (see 
> http://www.research.att.com/~bs/bs_faq2.html#cout). This obviously 
> does nothing right now. Cleverer ideas welcome.
>
>  -- Mark
>
>

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