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Return a pointer to the a string containing the name of `TYPE`, this serves as a convenient way to explicitly cast the return value to a `const char &ast;`&period;

== Synopsis

Declared in `&lt;bsls&lowbar;nameof&period;h&gt;`

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char const*
name() const;
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