Remove unnecessary name qualification in docstrings #45898
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When we give an example usage of an exported name such as
We should not qualify the name because this implies (falsely) that
lastdayofweek
is not exported.Specifically, any example REPL usage of an exported symbol from a stdlib, when the example comes from a docstring defined by that stdlib, should use the unqualified name. I define "exported" to be
Main.sybmol
is defined andMain.symbol === Stdlib.symbol
.I made these changes with the following script: