Bug 19068 – __traits(identifier) returns the wrong string when importing a template from a module

/// mod.d auto identity(T)(T t) { return t; } /// /// main.d import mod; alias identityInt = identity!int; enum memberName = __traits(identifier, __traits(getMember, main, "identityInt")); static assert(memberName == "identityInt", "Expected 'identityInt', got '" ~ memberName ~ "'"); /// The static assert fails, with __traits(identifier) returning "identity" instead of "identityInt".

An alias is not a real identifier - thinks of it more as like a pointer to the real identifier. This can be verified by doing the exact same as you did in main.d, in mod.d: auto identity(T)(T t) { return t; } alias identityInt = identity!int; static assert(__traits(identifier, identityInt) == "identity");