Beginnings of some extremely basic parsing and a utility

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+/*
+ * output.hh - Miscellaneous output routines
+ * util, the utility library for
+ * Project Horizon
+ *
+ * Copyright (c) 2019 Adélie Linux and contributors.  All rights reserved.
+ * This code is licensed under the AGPL 3.0 license, as noted in the
+ * LICENSE-code file in the root directory of this repository.
+ *
+ * SPDX-License-Identifier: AGPL-3.0-only
+ */
+
+#ifndef __HORIZON_OUTPUT_HH_
+#define __HORIZON_OUTPUT_HH_
+
+#include <string>
+#include <iostream>
+
+/*! Prints an error message to the cerr stream.
+ * @param where     The location where the error occurred.
+ * @param message   The error that occurred.
+ * @param detail    Additional detail for the error, if available.
+ * @param pretty    Whether or not to colourise (interactive output).
+ */
+inline void output_error(std::string where, std::string message,
+                         std::string detail = "", bool pretty = false) {
+    std::cerr << where << ": ";
+    if(pretty) std::cerr << "\033[31;1m";
+    std::cerr << "error: ";
+    if(pretty) std::cerr << "\033[0;1m";
+    std::cerr << message;
+    if(pretty) std::cerr << "\033[0m";
+    if(!detail.empty()) {
+        std::cerr << ": " << detail;
+    }
+    std::cerr << std::endl;
+}
+
+#endif /* !__HORIZON_OUTPUT_HH_ */