Check whether string value represents a type

[Timoses via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Monday, 24 July 2017 at 07:08:56 UTC, Basile B. wrote:
> On Friday, 21 July 2017 at 14:21:37 UTC, Timoses wrote:
>> I'd love to check whether a string value is the name of a type 
>> at run-time.
>> [...]
>> The goal is to identify whether a string represents a custom 
>> type within a package. I'm also trying to iterate over all 
>> modules within the package to get the struct name. However, 
>> that seems like a struggle...
>>
>> Any ideas?..
>
> I used custom Runtime Type Infos for this:
> https://github.com/BBasile/iz/blob/master/import/iz/rtti.d#L550
> Each type for which that's interesting to have extra 
> information is registered.
> When a type is not registered than it can be considered as not 
> a type.

Awesome, that's helping a lot : D.