toString

[Basile B.]

On Monday, 31 December 2018 at 10:13:17 UTC, Michelle Long wrote:
> Display variables in the watch shows the variables in a flat 
> list. Can we just get an override for toString or some other 
> method to change what is displayed?
>
> Surely this can be accomplished?
>
> Even if it means creating an external DLL that Visual D can 
> read and choose the right function and use it to take the 
> object and return a string and simply display that string 
> instead of whatever Visual D is generating internally?
>
> struct S
> {
>    int x;
> }
>
>
> Somewhere
>
>    auto S_toString(S s)
>    {
>       return "S: "~s.x;
>    }
>
> Should be very simple to do. Visual D just uses that function.

when it's easy enough do it yourself ;)