Significance of "name" in AbstractVector

[Pallavi Palleti]

Hi,

Could some one kindly let me know the significance of instance variable 
"name" in AbstractVector? It is causing problems, when I write a vector 
to file and read and compare with the same vector if the value of "name" 
is null. Because, while writing to file, "name" is set to empty string 
if it is null. So, when we read the vector from the file, it will have 
different value (not null) and asFormatString will have two different 
values for these vectors and so concludes that they are different.

Thanks
Pallavi