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Removing the Context

• To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
• Subject: [mg35667] Removing the Context
• From: "Johannes Ludsteck" <johannes.ludsteck at wiwi.uni-regensburg.de>
• Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2002 04:45:57 -0400 (EDT)
• Organization: Universitaet Regensburg
• Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

Dear MathGroup Members,
Tracing functions from Packages generates very long
and confusing output, since long context names are
printed. To give a short example, consider the following
command sequence:

DiscreteMath`Tree`

t=MakeTree[Range[5]]

Trace[TreeFind[t,3]]

generates very long output. A simple strategy to strip
it would be to use Trace[command, form] which only reports
expressions matching form.
But this does not alleviate the problem that package
variable names are very long, since all package symbols
have a long context. For example
the private package variables 'm' and 'found' are printed as

DiscreteMath`Tree`Private`m      and
DiscreteMath`Tree`Private`found

This makes Trace output almost unreadable.

Can anyone suggest a simple idea how to remove the long
context names in Trace output?

I defined a function which cuts the context from
symbols, but this seems awkward an application of
the function to the output is not trivial.

Best regards,
	Johannes Ludsteck