Timeline for For any symbol, how can I get the full context-qualified name of the symbol as a string?
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| Feb 19, 2013 at 18:05 | vote | accept | Joel Klein | ||
| Jan 22, 2013 at 2:23 | comment | added | Joel Klein | Well, it's a useful data point. | |
| Jan 21, 2013 at 16:39 | comment | added | Mr.Wizard | You didn't have your employer information in your profile when I wrote the comment above and now it looks quite silly. Oh well. | |
| Jan 17, 2013 at 15:44 | comment | added | Mr.Wizard | Sorry, I didn't make myself clear. What I mean is Information uses basically the same method you posted above, so I doubt a "better" way exists or the developers would have used it. I think your answer is the canonical method. | |
| Jan 17, 2013 at 14:42 | comment | added | Joel Klein | @Mr.Wizard: Sadly no, Information only prints things, it doesn't return a string. I want to use this programmatically, not interactively. | |
| Jan 17, 2013 at 13:26 | comment | added | Mr.Wizard | I bit of poking around reveals that (at least in v7) the system function Information also uses Context therefore I suppose this is the canonical method. | |
| Jan 16, 2013 at 21:03 | history | answered | Joel Klein | CC BY-SA 3.0 |