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Return a null‐terminated string containing the name of the specified `TYPE`. If `TYPE` is a fundamental type, string, date, time, or datetime, then return a canonical representation of the type's name. Otherwise, if `className` applied to the specified `object` returns a non‐null value, then return that value. Otherwise, return `typeid(TYPE).name()`. Note that the returned name refers to the _static_ `TYPE`, not to the dynamic type of `object`.

== Synopsis

Declared in `<bdlat_typename.h>`

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template<class TYPE>
static
char const*
name(TYPE const& object);
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