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Add debugger pseudo-variable to display "returned" value like C# debugger provides

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Assessment

Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
csharp, powershell
Domain
devtools

Research direction

Start by investigating the PowerShell debugger support and how debugger values are exposed to the editor. Determine whether a pseudo-variable for a function's returned output is feasible and define the expected behavior before identifying the implementation and test entry points. Done means the feature works consistently during debugging and has coverage for representative function output.

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Description

Area-Debugging Issue-Enhancement

I'm not sure if this is possible or not but it sure would be nice to have. Many times PowerShellers just let various statements "output" from the function so after you've called a function (and you don't capture the output in a variable) it is hard to tell what output the called function is contributing to the output of the current function/script.

Dominant language
C#
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Forks
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Avg merge
3d 16h
Merged PRs (30d)
1

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