@properties in debug watches in visual D?

[Rainer Schuetze]

On 02/06/2019 17:49, Amex wrote:
> Would it be possible to get properties to show up in the debug
> watch/local/auto's? These are used quite often when programming to
> interfaces because fields are not allowed.
> 
> 1. Either use @properties or possibly have a special attribute that
> could mark functions that are to be displayed as variables(getters = no
> non-default parameters and a non-void return type).
> 
> 2. Simply try to display all getters. This might duplicate a bunch of
> the fields though. Could have a special entry that one could expand and
> it would then list all the getter values(so only evaluates these when
> expanded).
> 
> 3. I tend to use the same name for the field as the property so if there
> is a basic match(differ only by case or underscore) then only display
> one(so fields and functions are not both shown)... but obviously this
> might differ in many apps so is not robust.
> 

Some of the machinery works, but executing code in the debuggee can be
pretty hrmful. See also https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16692