A Variadic println() for Arduino
The Arduino ecosystem provides Serial.print(x); and Serial.println(x);, the latter adding a newline after the value. I almost universally want to print out out a tag so I know what's what though, so something like Serial.printlnMulti(x, y, z, ...) would be convenient. (x, y, and z and so on can be any type here.)
And indeed, we can make it so.
debug.hpp:
#pragma once
#include <Arduino.h>
template <class ...Types>
void debug(Types&& ...inputs)
{
(Serial.print(inputs), ...);
Serial.println();
}
Usage like debug("analog value: ", analogRead(35));. You can have any number of args to the function, of course.
What are the size implications of this, however? C++ is big on zero-cost abstractions, so ideally the above should copile the same as:
Serial.print("analog value: ");
Serial.println(analogRead(35));
Testing this in my non-trivial project, substituting one debug stanza of many, we get a total size for the fancy C++ 17 version, 279957 bytes. This compares favourably to the baseline of 279973 bytes, as we have paid a total of -20 bytes for our indescretions. A win for expressing what you want over expresning how to do it, I guess. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯