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Write the specified `object` to the specified output `stream` in some reasonable (multi‐line) format, and return a reference to `stream`.

== Synopsis

Declared in `<bslx_byteoutstream.h>`

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std::ostream&
operator<<(
    std::ostream& stream,
    xref:BloombergLP/bslx/ByteOutStream.adoc[ByteOutStream] const& object);
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