I doubt that this is possible, but I thought Id as...

# stdlib

[Zoltan Demant]

I doubt that this is possible, but I thought Id ask anyway! Value classes come with a default toString that results in `Count(value=5)`; is it possible to somehow override these defaults to instead just print the value (5) instead?

[Chris Lee]

Yes. Just override the toString() method.

[andylamax]

Yes, it is possible.

[Zoltan Demant]

Forgot to mention 🤦🏽‍♂️ Id like to do this for a ton of classes, so manually overriding toString isnt ideal!

[andylamax]

You should start an afair with KSP

[andylamax]

wait, hold on. KSP won't help override. Sorry

[Josh Feinberg]

you could do a compiler plugin like redacted probably

[Derek Peirce]

This may be a better topic for #language-evolution, but I'd like to see more meta-programming capability to allow for writing custom toString implementations that are derived from a class's values, similar to data class, with greater flexibility, such as specifying a different prefix or separator, or having a field using a conversion aside from toString (especially arrays).