I used to work for a company that whose C++ string class worked like this, although not quite as intricate. Had a separate mode for statically compiled strings too. It was pretty nice, although I didn&#x27;t agree with every style choice. Makes some branchy code though.<p>In Visual Studio debugger you can write scripts to pretty-print string variables in the &quot;watch&quot; window, I would guess other good debuggers can do this too.