Remove expander for strings in Visual D

Rainer Schuetze r.sagitario at gmx.de
Fri Oct 26 06:36:05 UTC 2018



On 26/10/2018 02:29, Michelle Long wrote:
> Strings have an expander and are treated like arrays but they don't have
> to be. The string is already shown in the value and there is the text
> viewer for them. The expander just gets in the way.

The array display can also be helpful for some lowlevel code that
iterates over the string, especially if there multi-byte characters in a
string. I don't think having the option to expand the string is too
distractive.


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