typeof.stringof wrong type

[David Nadlinger via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Friday, 19 August 2016 at 15:15:55 UTC, ag0aep6g wrote:
> I think that qualifies as a bug, because fullyQualifiedName is 
> supposed to be usable in code generation.

This is a misconception. Neither .stringof nor fullyQualifiedName 
should *ever* be used in code generation. There is a myriad of 
things that make strings unsuitable in the general case. The most 
obvious reason are imports: think a type coming via an alias 
parameter from a second module, which is not even important at 
the point of the mixin.

Instead of trying to make .stringof work do things it will never 
be able to, you need to use the type just as you would at the 
point of the mixin. In this example, you would write 
`mixin("typeof(a) d");`.

  — David