Re: names, symbols, and contexts
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- Subject: [mg6193] Re: [mg6175] names, symbols, and contexts
- From: Allan Hayes <hay at haystack.demon.co.uk>
- Date: Thu, 27 Feb 1997 02:53:28 -0500
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
murray at math.umass.edu (Murray Eisenberg) [mg6175] names, symbols, and contexts > Here's the problem: a symbol fname contains the name of a > Mathematica object, e.g.: > > fname = "myf" > > The question is how to determine the context of the object named > byfname (in our case, the context of myf). Murray, The following may help: ff = "hh"; hh = Tan; Context@@ToExpression[ff,InputForm, Hold] (*context of hh*) Global` Context[Evaluate[ToExpression[ff]] (*context of value of hh*) System` Allan Hayes hay at haystack.demon.co.uk http://www.haystack.demon.co.uk