Get aliased type

[David Nadlinger]

On Tuesday, 2 January 2018 at 11:42:49 UTC, John Chapman wrote:
> Because an alias of a type is just another name for the same 
> thing you can't test if they're different. I wondered if there 
> was a way to get the aliased name, perhaps via traits? 
> (.stringof returns the original type.)

There is indeed no way to do this; as you say, aliases are just 
names for a particular reference to a symbol. Perhaps you don't 
actually need the names in your use case, though?

  — David