Rust’s new `dbg!()` macro looks pretty useful, I w...

# language-proposals

[cedric]

Rust’s new dbg!() macro looks pretty useful, I was wondering if it would be possible to replicate it in Kotlin. This would require being able to capture the text form of the expression. https://blog.rust-lang.org/2019/01/17/Rust-1.32.0.html

[Ruckus]

I was reading the release notes this morning and thought the same thing, but I'm not sure if the level of "meta-programming" (if you'll pardon the over used and somewhat meaningless term) and preprocessing required would be worth adding. I could be wrong though.

[cedric]

That would open the whole macro debate, yes, which I have very mixed feelings about.

[Ruckus]

Indeed, same here

[r4zzz4k]

That may be a good job for compiler plugin, though I don't recall it having access to source code, so string representation of expression may be unavailable.