Re: chaining statements without a semicolon
jcktmp@gmail.com wrote in news:1191956419.789292.195680@
57g2000hsv.googlegroups.com:
I currently have a macro for logging with a definition similar to the
following:
#define LOG shouldLog() && logStream
so that statements of this type may be written:
LOG << "some logging << endl;
I would like to add a static variable to this macro, so that the macro
expands to:
static LogObject x; x.shouldLog() && logStream
The problem is that with control statements that optionally use braces
(if, while, etc.), the multi statement approach doesn't work. Is there
any way to rewrite this (without adding a brace to the log macro and
creating an END macro) so that everything can be done in LOG?
Thanks,
J
That won't work, but you can use the singleton pattern. That is:
#define LOG LogObject::Instance().ShouldLog && LogObject::Instance
().logStream
would work.
Depending upon how you implement your Instance() method, you could have
one per file or one per application.
joe
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