Like getClass()

[torhu]

bearophile wrote:
> Sergey Gromov:
>> typeof() gives a static type of an object.  But I was sure that 
>> thing.classinfo.name should have referred to the dynamic type name.  
>> Apparently it's not the case, it prints the same test.FooBar as in your 
>> test.
> 
> Thank you for your answer.
> So the question here is: is the information I need present at runtime somewhere?
> If the answer is true, then the problem is how to get it.

obj.classinfo doesn't work the way you'd expect with an interface, but 
it works when you've got an object:

writefln((cast(Object)thing).classinfo.name);

This does look ugly, though.