On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 4:52 PM, Brady Eidson <beid...@apple.com> wrote:
> > On Jul 10, 2012, at 5:25 AM, Alexis Menard <alexis.men...@openbossa.org> > wrote: > > > On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 6:53 PM, Brady Eidson <beid...@apple.com> wrote: > >> > >> On Jul 9, 2012, at 2:43 PM, Alexis Menard <alexis.men...@openbossa.org> > wrote: > >> > >>> Hi, > >>> > >>> For those who "secretly" use printf debugging :). I know the > >>> recommended way is to use a debugger and it's not the point of this > >>> discussion. > >> > >> A lot of us do this, and sometimes it's necessary. I agree with the > gripe and support adding something easier. > >> > >>> So I propose wtf() and its stream operator. > >>> > >>> Usage : > >>> > >>> wtf()<<"Hello"<<"World"<<3<<4.53322323; will output : Hello World 3 > 4.53322 > >> > >> There is no reason to bring in stream operators - that are willfully > absent from WebCore - just for debugging. > >> > > > > But it's really nice for that purpose, and somehow match std::cout > > And we quite purposefully don't use std::cout in the project. > > >> Overloading functions works just as well. > > > > I'm not sure to understand what you mean hereā¦ > > I mean relying on C++'s overloading of functions for the different types > you'd like to printf debug. > > void debug(WebCore::String&); > void debug(WebCore::Frame*); > void debug(WebCore::Node*); > > etc etc etc. > > debug(someFrame); > debug(someNode); > debug(someString); > > Especially that last one would help me from remembering how to type > "printf("%s", someString.utf8().data())" which is all I've ever really > wanted. Hello fellow printfers! While I'm just as ashamed of my printf habits as the next guy, I think it'd be great if we could move forward with this somehow. Coming from a background in Qt, the stream operator syntax looks perfectly normal to me, perhaps you could expand on why we want to avoid using these in WebKit. Is there a technical reason, or is it more of a language purity issue? Regardless, adding a consistent set of debug(WebCore::MyCoolOverload) methods as suggested would still be massively useful. -Kling
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