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<div><h1>showStructure -- display parent structure</h1>
<div class="single"><h2>Description</h2>
<div><div><h2>Synopsis</h2>
<ul><li><div class="list"><dl class="element"><dt class="heading">Usage: </dt><dd class="value"><div><tt>showStructure</tt></div>
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<li>Outputs:<ul><li><span>a display of the parent structure of all types assigned to global variables</span></li>
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<div><h2>Synopsis</h2>
<ul><li><div class="list"><dl class="element"><dt class="heading">Usage: </dt><dd class="value"><div><tt>showStructure (X,Y,...)</tt></div>
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<li>Inputs:<ul><li><span><tt>X</tt>, <span>a <a href="___Type.html">type</a></span></span></li>
<li><span><tt>Y</tt>, <span>a <a href="___Type.html">type</a></span></span></li>
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<li>Outputs:<ul><li><span>a display of the class structure of the types specified</span></li>
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<p>Each such type is displayed to the right of its <a href="_parent.html" title="parent type of an object">parent</a>.</p>
<p>A type is an instance of <a href="___Type.html" title="the class of all types">Type</a>, by definition.</p>
<table class="examples"><tr><td><pre>i1 : showStructure
o1 = Thing : BasicList : Command
Constant
DocumentTag
Eliminate
Expression : Adjacent
AssociativeExpression : Equation
Product
Sum
BinaryOperation
Divide
FunctionApplication
Holder : OneExpression
ZeroExpression
MatrixExpression
Minus
NonAssociativeProduct
Parenthesize
Power
RowExpression
SparseMonomialVectorExpression
SparseVectorExpression
Subscript
Superscript
Table
FilePosition
ForestNode
Hybrid
IndeterminateNumber
IndexedVariable
InfiniteNumber
LowerBound
Manipulator
MutableList : Bag
Option
Partition
ProductOrder
PushforwardComputation
RingElement
SumOfTwists
Time
TreeNode
URL
Vector
VisibleList : Array
List : VerticalList
Sequence
Boolean
CompiledFunctionBody
Database
Dictionary : GlobalDictionary
LocalDictionary
File
Function : CompiledFunction
CompiledFunctionClosure : MethodFunction
FunctionClosure : CacheFunction
MethodFunctionWithOptions
FunctionBody
HashTable : CoherentSheaf
Ideal : MonomialIdeal
ImmutableType : Module
ModuleMap : Matrix
MonoidElement
MutableHashTable : CacheTable
Descent
GradedModule : ChainComplex
GradedModuleMap : ChainComplexMap
GroebnerBasis
IndexedVariableTable : SchurRingIndexedVariableTable
Package
Resolution
ScriptedFunctor
Type : HeaderType
Monoid : OrderedMonoid : GeneralOrderedMonoid
Ring : EngineRing : FractionField
GaloisField
InexactField : ComplexField
RealField
PolynomialRing
QuotientRing
SchurRing
RingFamily : InexactFieldFamily
SelfInitializingType
WrapperType
Variety : AffineVariety
ProjectiveVariety
MutableMatrix
OptionTable : GroebnerBasisOptions
ProjectiveHilbertPolynomial
RingMap
SheafOfRings
Tally : Set
VirtualTally : BettiTally
LibxmlAttribute
LibxmlNode
Net : String
NetFile
Nothing : InexactNumber
*
Number : InexactNumber : CC
RR
QQ
ZZ
Pseudocode
Symbol : Keyword
o1 : Descent</pre>
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<tr><td><pre>i2 : showStructure(ZZ,QQ,RR,RR_200,QQ[x],Ring)
o2 = Thing : BasicList : RingElement : QQ[x]
HashTable : MutableHashTable : Type : Ring
Nothing : InexactNumber : RR : RR
* * 200
Number : InexactNumber : RR
QQ
ZZ
o2 : Descent</pre>
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<div class="single"><h2>See also</h2>
<ul><li><span><a href="_show__Class__Structure.html" title="display class structure">showClassStructure</a> -- display class structure</span></li>
<li><span><a href="_show__User__Structure.html" title="show parent structure for those types defined by user">showUserStructure</a> -- show parent structure for those types defined by user</span></li>
<li><span><a href="_ancestors.html" title="the ancestors of something">ancestors</a> -- the ancestors of something</span></li>
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<div class="waystouse"><h2>For the programmer</h2>
<p>The object <a href="_show__Structure.html" title="display parent structure">showStructure</a> is <span>a <a href="___Command.html">command</a></span>.</p>
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