Functions that return type

[data pulverizer via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Saturday, 16 January 2016 at 21:59:22 UTC, data pulverizer 
wrote:
> On Saturday, 16 January 2016 at 21:22:15 UTC, data pulverizer 
> wrote:
>> Is it possible to create a function that returns Type like 
>> typeof() does? Something such as:
>>
>> Type returnInt(){
>>     return int;
>> }
>>
>> More to the point what is the Type of a type such as int?
>>
>> Thanks
>
> p.s. I am aware I could do typeof(1) to return int, but I am 
> looking for something more elegant and some understanding.

Thanks for all the answers. I guess I have been writing a lot of 
julia where I take creating arrays and tuples of types for 
granted. In this case types are of type DataType. I am aware that 
you can create tuples of types in D, but then it cannot be easily 
manipulated e.g. (int, float)[0] = string or similar. You have to 
immediately alias it and there are a limited number of operations 
you can do with the resulting type. I guess the constraints are 
that of a static language.