Suppose You Have a Programmer-Defined Data Type Data and Want

question 26

Multiple Choice

Suppose you have a programmer-defined data type Data and want to overload the << operator to output your data type to the screen in the form cout << dataToPrint; and allow cascaded function calls. The first line of the function definition would be:

• A) ostream& operator<<(ostream& output, const Data& dataToPrint)
• B) ostream operator<<(ostream& output, const Data& dataToPrint)
• C) ostream& operator<<(const Data& dataToPrint, ostream& output)
• D) ostream operator<<(const Data& dataToPrint, ostream& output)

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