In the instant example where you have the name in the code, just include
the name as a string:
fmt.Printf("Type: %T, Name:%#+v\n", myVariable, "myVariable")
But in the general case where that pointer value has been passed to a
function or stored in a map or slice and you are referencing it only from
the map or slice, I do not think you can, at all, because the pointer is
NOT pointing at the variable. Rather, the variable and the pointer are
referencing the same in-memory object, and that object has no name.
Consider this tweak to your example: https://go.dev/play/p/aX7MfsnuZPZ
What name would either of these return? All of these variables in the end
point to the same place - if before all the myVariableX= lines there was a
Val := "Swiss Cheese"
myVariable = &Val
, every one of those variables would point to the string "Swiss Cheese",
and would have the same pointer value. What then, should the name of that
pointer be?
>From the computer's perspective, it is not a sensical question.
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