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Write the string representation of the specified enumeration `rhs` to the specified `stream` in a single‐line format, and return a reference to the modifiable `stream`. See `dataTypeToAscii` for what constitutes the string representation of a `Datum::DataType` value.

== Synopsis

Declared in `<bdld_datum.h>`

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std::ostream&
operator<<(
    std::ostream& stream,
    xref:BloombergLP/bdld/Datum/DataType.adoc[Datum::DataType] rhs);
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