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fully qualified name (long name)
subject			fact

fully qualified name	the fully qualified name for a member must be used if the member is in a different package and if the member's package has not been imported
	can be used to disambiguate two members of different packages with the same name
	has definition A name that is unambiguous
	is a subtopic of Packages
	is a kind of name
	see also simple name
	is a synonym of long name
name	cannot be a keyword
	is made up of a sequence of Unicode characters
syntactic unit	has syntax rule bold = mandatory italic = non-terminal normal font = optional

Kinds of fully qualified name :

• fully qualified class name (5 facts)
• fully qualified interface name (2 facts)
• fully qualified method name (6 facts)
• fully qualified name of a member of a package (3 facts)
• fully qualified variable name (4 facts)