[fpc-pascal] generic way of writing Sets or Enum values to a String

[leledumbo]

> Is there a way to have a single implementation of Enum-to-String or 
> Set-to-String (and the reverse), but pass in the type, instead of having 
> a separate implementation of each Enum or Set types. 
> 
> Could RTTI help? Could Generics help? Is there some other language 
> construct I might have missed? 

Take mine:

generic function EnumValueNameOf<T>(v: T): String;
begin
  Result := GetEnumName(TypeInfo(T), LongInt(v));
end;

guess you already know how to use it, don't you?



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