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FilePosition -- the class of all file positions

Description

FilePosition -- a type of list designed to represent a position in a file.

It's implemented as a list with 3, 5 or 7 elements. The first part is the file name, then each pair is a row/column position. A single pair is a position, two form a range. The last pair is the central point of interest in that range.

Functions and methods returning a file position:

  • locate -- locate source code
  • locate(Command) -- see locate -- locate source code
  • locate(Function) -- see locate -- locate source code
  • locate(FunctionBody) -- see locate -- locate source code
  • locate(Nothing) -- see locate -- locate source code
  • locate(Pseudocode) -- see locate -- locate source code
  • locate(Sequence) -- see locate -- locate source code
  • locate(Symbol) -- see locate -- locate source code

Methods that use a file position:

  • code(FilePosition) (missing documentation)

For the programmer

The object FilePosition is a type, with ancestor classes BasicList < Thing.

The source of this document is in Macaulay2Doc/ov_debugging.m2:370:0.