When a variable is passed into a function, is its name kept somewhere for the function to acceess

[Gary Willoughby via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Tuesday, 10 November 2015 at 14:14:33 UTC, DlangLearner wrote:
> Please enlighten me if this can be done, thanks.

If i understand you, you could use a templated function:

import std.stdio;

void foo(alias a)()
{
     writefln("%s was passed in.", a.stringof);
}

void main(string[] args)
{
     auto bar = "bar";
     foo!(bar);
}