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I thought when we type a symbol without specifying its Context, it will search all the Context in ...

As you may already know, Mathematica is a wonderful piece of software. However, it has a few characteristics that tend to confuse new (and sometimes not-so-new) users. That can be clearly seen from ...

I'm building a package to help me write packages and their documentation. In this post I explained how to make a package and its documentation. In the answer I provided I describe how to build a very ...

Bug introduced in V6 and fixed in V11.3 The behavior indeed changed but now the documentation is clear about it. This code is inconsistent with the description from Power Programming with ...

What are the best (most robust and most convenient) ways to create palettes that can be installed permanently (using Palettes -> Install Palette...) and are safe ...

FullForm strips the context for any symbol that can be found on the Append[$ContextPath, $Context]: ...

Related questions have been asked before (eg Where does a package have to be loaded?, https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6152023/quit-kernel-in-mathematica-by-a-command-not-using-evaluation-menu, ...

So, if you have a package formatted like so: ...

Consider the following code: Begin["mycontext`"]; myvar = 7; Print[Context[]]; Print[Context[myvar]]; End[]; with the output mycontext` mycontext` Now ...

I would like to understand why in the following code, my variable Λ is recognized by the system but not n. In fact for me ...

I want to import a package in a way that requires me to use the long names for package symbols, just as if I had created the context on the fly. What is the idiomatic way to do this?

Why does 1/0 $MessageList ComplexInfinity whereas Block[{}, 1/0; $MessageList ] <...

Some questions related to $Context and $ContextPath have already been asked and answered, but I still cannot fully grasp the ...