How to convert int type to string "int" ?

[bioinfornatics via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Sunday, 1 June 2014 at 13:34:20 UTC, bioinfornatics wrote:
> Hi,
>
> All is in the title.
> I need this to do a tupleof enhanced, that mean:
>    - .tupleof need an instance me i want to do this on type
> diretcly
>    - .tupleof do not bind to member name i need this
>
>
> for this i strat to this code:
>
> import std.stdio;
> import std.typecons;
> import std.conv;
>
> struct Coord
> {
>      int x;
>      int y;
>      int z;
> }
>
> template toTuple(T){
>      static string maker(){
>          string statement = "alias Tuple!(";
>          foreach(const memberName; __traits(allMembers, T)){
>              statement ~=  to!string(typeof(__traits(getMember, 
> T,
> memberName)))  ~ ",\"" ~ memberName ~ "\", " ;
>          }
>          statement = statement[O..$-1] ~ ") t;" ; // $-1 to 
> remove
> extra comma
>          return statement;
>      }
>      enum toTuple = mixin( maker() );
> }
>
>
> but that fail on typeof(__traits(getMember, T, memberName) 
> becase
> that return a type and not a string.
>
>
> Thaks for your help

I find this: typeid(typeof(__traits(getMember, T,
memberName))).toString
but that do not works at compile time.

Error: static variable typeid(int) cannot be read at compile time