Bug report

[Todd Vierling]

On Tue, 8 Sep 1998, Alexandrescu, Andrei wrote:

: 	std::cout << typeid(int).name() << endl;

: It prints only "i", not "int".

"i" happens to be the C++ mangled type for "int".

The typeinfo::name() function isn't required to hand back anything
user-readable.  The mangled names here are actually a boon in the cases
where template names get very big and recursive.

(Where's a squangle when you need one.... :)

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