Re: Terse code sought
Roedy Green wrote:
Consider the following code, typical of the sort of thing I pepper my
code with when debugging.
out.println( "maxBraceNesting:" + maxBraceNesting + "
maxBracketNesting:" + maxBracketNesting + " maxParenthesisNesting:" +
maxParenthesisNesting );
If you had a lot of these to do, how would you crank them out?
With an amanuensis that generated source code?
With a keystroke macro of some sort?
With reflection?
with an IDE plugin?
Assume the variable are local.
Way back in the PL/1 days we had PUT DATA to handle this problem.
Perhaps someday Java might have some syntactic sugar to capture the
text of an expression passed to a method and place in a second
parameter, done at compile time.
Modulo that I wouldn't use 'println()' for that but a logger, what about
<http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/lang/String.html#format(java.lang.String,
java.lang.Object...)>
?
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