Getting module of a class

[Don]

Bill Baxter wrote:
> I find myself sometimes wanting to get an alias to the module
> namespace that a given type came from.
> 
> The reason is this:  these days it's en vogue to make classes contain
> as few functions as necessary, and to write everything else as
> non-member functions.  The problem is that when you are using
> BigCoreDataStructure a lot in your program it's natural to import that
> from other modules and in the end you can lose sight of which module
> BigCoreDataStructure came from (it could be aliased to something else
> like "BCDS" in your current namespace for instance.)
> 
> But now you have a problem because you have access to BCDS but you
> also want to get at his auxillary non-member functions.    But those
> didn't get imported because they would gum up the namespace.
> 
> I'm thinking it would be nice if you could do something like
> ModuleOf(BCDS).ANonMemberFuncton to get at one of those non-member
> functions in BCDS's module whatever that may be.
> 
> I think types do have the information of which module they originated
> in, so technically it should be possible.  Has anyone written a
> routine that can do this?
> 
> --bb

Yes. It's in my meta.NameOf module. Which hasn't been updated in quite 
some time...