how to find the type of a supplied variable

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On Friday, 6 December 2013 at 20:58:15 UTC, seany wrote:
> why do i need the static? (is that not supposed to prevent 
> insertations of new scopes inside the braces? is it really 
> needed?)

You can possibly use normal if but most likely you will get 
compilation errors from other conditional branches as they will 
use parameter type in semantically incorrect way. `static if` 
avoids compilation of not matching blocks and does not have this 
issue. You can explicitly define new scope using one extra pair 
of braces if you want it.