[Issue 16023] New: Add template or trait to find the importable symbol name for a type

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https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16023

          Issue ID: 16023
           Summary: Add template or trait to find the importable symbol
                    name for a type
           Product: D
           Version: D2
          Hardware: x86
                OS: Linux
            Status: NEW
          Severity: enhancement
          Priority: P1
         Component: phobos
          Assignee: nobody at puremagic.com
          Reporter: erikas.aubade at gmail.com

DMD 2.071's new visibility rules make it so that if you're introspecting a type
from inside a template, you need to locally import the module that it comes
from; best practices would dictate you only import the specific symbol you're
attempting to introspect. Unfortunately, none of the ways I could come up
worked in every case

mixin("import " ~ moduleName!T ~": " ~ T.stringof ~ ";");

fails with templated types, as the instantiation causes the parsing to fail.

Substituting __traits(identifier, T) fails on nested types

Using a selective TemplateOf like so:

static if (__traits(compiles, TemplateOf!T)) {
    private alias symb = TemplateOf!T;
} else {
    private alias symb = T;
}

enum importableName = __traits(identifier, symb);

fails on non-templated classes that inherit from templated ones.

Basically, the long and short of it is that this seems like it should be a
common enough use case to warrant something to help us do this without having
to do a ton of CTFE string parsing and substitution.

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