Given a parametric type T I would like to print (or, equivalently, obtain as a String) the name of this type without parameters. The purpose is pretty-printing a complicated type. I need a generic solution, not one that depend on defining methods for particular types. Base.typename used to work for…

Print name of type w/o parameters, Julia 1.0-master

Tamas_Papp August 24, 2020, 11:19am 3

Well, since it is not exported, I can’t complain.

In the meantime, I realized that I can just use nameof and it does what I want.

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