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by CuriousCosmic 517 days ago
In the source code? That's a skill issue not an IDE issue. If you have ugly types, you fix that in source code with `using` declarations.
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whatever1 517 days ago
What the hell is a skill issue? Open a random GitHub repo. Do all of the authors of C++ have skill issues except you ?
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motorest 517 days ago
> What the hell is a skill issue? Open a random GitHub repo.

Can you be a bit clear? I rarely see any project whose authors express types with fully qualified names. What exactly are you talking about?

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Spongman 517 days ago
not in the source code, in the debugger UI (callstack, watch/locals, etc...)
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CuriousCosmic 516 days ago
At least in lldb (the LLVM equivalent of GCC's gdb however gdb should also do this), types should be shown as their declared type rather than the fully expanded resolved type. At least as long as you are running with debug information attached.

This means if you are declaring types with `using` declarations they should be showing up as that type in the debugger.

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