[fpc-devel] Gaps in a non-contiguous enum

[Martin Frb]

On 16/08/2022 09:37, Michael Van Canneyt via fpc-devel wrote:
>
> On Tue, 16 Aug 2022, Juha Manninen via fpc-devel wrote:
>> And function GetEnumValue() is buggy.
>
> It is not buggy. It does not support enumerateds with gaps, because 
> RTTI does not support enumerateds with gaps.
> It never has.
...
>
>   Published
>     property Fruit : TFruitMore Read FFruit Write FFruit;
...

> If you change it to
>
>   EnumType:=TypeInfo(TFruitMore);
>
> Delphi will even write a compile-time error:

Then maybe the property should not compile either.

What is the point to allow it being published, if then you can not get 
(correct) typeinfo? (and therefore not stream it)