From @lizmat

[10​:41​:11] <lizmat> r​: module Foo { module Bar { say $?PACKAGE } } # shouldn't this need to say (Foo​::Bar) ???
[10​:41​:12] <+camelia> rakudo b2072f​: OUTPUT«(Bar)␤»
[10​:53​:53] <lizmat> TimToady​: do you have an opinion on "module Foo { module Bar { say $?PACKAGE } } # shouldn't this need to say (Foo​::Bar) ???"
[10​:54​:17] <TimToady> lizmat​: I'd think so
[10​:54​:50] <jnthn> Wait, stringifying a type object gives the short nam,e no?
[10​:55​:20] <lizmat> ah, how to get the long name then?
[10​:55​:32] <jnthn> .WHO iirc, though not sure that does the Right thing yet.
[10​:55​:54] <pmichaud> $?PACKAGE.WHO stringifies to long name
[10​:56​:13] <jnthn> Right
[10​:56​:17] <jnthn> well, *should* :)
[10​:56​:34] <lizmat> rn​: module Foo { module Bar { say $?PACKAGE.WHO } }
[10​:56​:37] <+camelia> ..rakudo b2072f​: OUTPUT«().hash␤»
[10​:56​:59] lizmat adapts rakudobug before sending off

From @jnthn

On Thu Jun 06 09​:00​:54 2013, elizabeth wrote​:

[10​:41​:11] <lizmat> r​: module Foo { module Bar { say $?PACKAGE }
} # shouldn't this need to say (Foo​::Bar) ???
[10​:41​:12] <+camelia> rakudo b2072f​: OUTPUT«(Bar)␤»
[10​:53​:53] <lizmat> TimToady​: do you have an opinion on "module
Foo { module Bar { say $?PACKAGE } } # shouldn't this need to say
(Foo​::Bar) ???"
[10​:54​:17] <TimToady> lizmat​: I'd think so
[10​:54​:50] <jnthn> Wait, stringifying a type object gives the
short nam,e no?
[10​:55​:20] <lizmat> ah, how to get the long name then?
[10​:55​:32] <jnthn> .WHO iirc, though not sure that does the
Right thing yet.
[10​:55​:54] <pmichaud> $?PACKAGE.WHO stringifies to long name
[10​:56​:13] <jnthn> Right
[10​:56​:17] <jnthn> well, *should* :)
[10​:56​:34] <lizmat> rn​: module Foo { module Bar { say
$?PACKAGE.WHO } }
[10​:56​:37] <+camelia> ..rakudo b2072f​: OUTPUT«().hash␤»
[10​:56​:59] lizmat adapts rakudobug before sending off

Now .WHAT reliably gists to the shortname in parens, and .WHO reliably gists to the fully qualified name. A bunch of tests were added to S10-packages/basic.t to cover this.

/jnthn

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