Dealing with type information loss in Parameters Fields and Return type

[Nicholas Wilson via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Sunday, 17 April 2016 at 10:48:08 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> On Sunday, April 17, 2016 10:12:29 Nicholas Wilson via 
> Digitalmars-d-learn wrote:
>> [...]
>
> I'm actually surprised that you got the compiler to give you 
> size_t in any form. size_t is simply an alias to either ulong 
> (on 64-bit systems) or uint (on 32-bit systems), and for better 
> or worse, aliases pretty much just disappear. As far as the 
> compiler is concerned, if it sees
>
> [...]

Sorry for the confusion, I didn't. getting the string "size_t" as 
the result of a hypothetical StringReturnType is the desired 
outcome.