I want to write a function get_original_name(::DataType) that returns the original name used when declaring a struct. Is there any way to do this? Is the original name even distinguishable from names that were added later? struct A end B = A @assert get_original_name(B) == :(Main.A) The goal is to…

Getting the original name of structs

jishnub January 10, 2023, 2:19pm 2

You may use

julia> nameof(B)
:A

Although this strips the module

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