Which is why C# (and apparently other .NET constituents) has the excellent, but separate DebuggerDisplay API [0]. IIRC it also makes it possible to define a pri

Which is why C# (and apparently other .NET constituents) has the excellent, but separate DebuggerDisplay API [0]. IIRC it also makes it possible to define a private implementation to communicate to clients that this pseudo-serialization is not part of the public API (like ToString() implicitly would be). [0] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/debugger/using-the-debuggerdisplay-attribute?view=vs-2019 https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/debugger/using...