Introduce custom show for applied types #18950
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When using an ecosystem with complex type classes it is easy to get lost in the large type error messages.
One method to mitigate it is using a compiler plugin like
scala-clippy(which is not available for Scala 3).This PR proposes a new approach with an addition of
compiletime.hasCustomShowandcompiletime.CustomShowby enabling library owners to define custom compiletime show strings for their classes. These strings will be fetched by scalac when runningshowif the class/type that is annotated withcompiletime.hasCustomShowand has an available implicit set bycompiletime.CustomShow.Example:
What we get is
Using macros, library owners can create flexible custom
showstrings.