VARIABLE TYPE - a way to know it

Hi,
I've been wondering for a big while if there is any way to know the type of an existing variable.
To explain it, here is an example of how I would like to use it:
var myVar:Boolean = true;
trace(SomeFunctionReturningTypeOfVar(myVar)); // "Boolean"
Of course, we can do a simple function that wil have like ten if clauses checking "if(myVar is String) ... else if(myVar is Boolean) ..." etc, but this is way too clumsy a solution...
Any ideas?
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