endPackage(String) -- end a new package

Synopsis

Usage:
endPackage pkgname
Function: endPackage
Inputs:
- pkgname, a string, the name of the package
Consequences:
- The package named should have been opened with newPackage. The package is closed, and the former value of dictionaryPath is restored, with the global dictionary (containing the exported symbols) of the package prepended.
Outputs:
- a package, the new package

Description

A package writer need not call this function explicitly, since the end of file hook for the file containing the newPackage command that opened the package will call endPackage.

i1 : newPackage "Foo"

o1 = Foo

o1 : Package

i2 : export abc

i3 : abc = 3

o3 = 3

i4 : dictionaryPath

o4 = {Foo#"private dictionary", Parsing.Dictionary, TangentCone.Dictionary,
     ------------------------------------------------------------------------
     SchurRings.Dictionary, Classic.Dictionary,
     ------------------------------------------------------------------------
     PrimaryDecomposition.Dictionary, LLLBases.Dictionary,
     ------------------------------------------------------------------------
     Elimination.Dictionary, Core.Dictionary, OutputDictionary,
     ------------------------------------------------------------------------
     PackageDictionary}

o4 : List

i5 : endPackage "Foo"

o5 = Foo

o5 : Package

i6 : peek oo

o6 = Package{Dictionary => Foo.Dictionary                                         }
             example inputs => MutableHashTable{}
             example results => MutableHashTable{}
             exported mutable symbols => {}
             exported symbols => {abc}
             Options => OptionTable{Authors => {}                                }
                                    Date => 
                                    DebuggingMode => false
                                    Headline => 
                                    HomePage => 
                                    InfoDirSection => Macaulay 2 and its packages
                                    Version => 0.0
             package prefix => null
             private dictionary => Foo#"private dictionary"
             processed documentation => MutableHashTable{}
             raw documentation => MutableHashTable{}
             source directory => ./
             test inputs => MutableHashTable{}
             test number => 0
             title => Foo
             undocumented keys => MutableHashTable{}

i7 : dictionaryPath

o7 = {Foo.Dictionary, User#"private dictionary", Parsing.Dictionary,
     ------------------------------------------------------------------------
     TangentCone.Dictionary, SchurRings.Dictionary, Classic.Dictionary,
     ------------------------------------------------------------------------
     PrimaryDecomposition.Dictionary, LLLBases.Dictionary,
     ------------------------------------------------------------------------
     Elimination.Dictionary, Core.Dictionary, OutputDictionary,
     ------------------------------------------------------------------------
     PackageDictionary}

o7 : List

i8 : abc

o8 = 3