Print type of variable

[orobio (Manolo van Ee)]

I created a pitch:

Add staticType(of:)

Recently I copied some code into an online compiler and I was wondering which type was inferred at some point. I've used type(of:) before, but in this case I actually wanted to know the static type. I asked on the forum and there doesn't seem to be a standard way to get the static type. Eventually, we came up with this: func staticType<T>(of _: T) -> T.Type { return T.self } So, this makes the following possible: let a = someFunction() print(staticType(of: a)) In an IDE it might not make…