[fpc-pascal] TypeInfo on generic templates

[Howard Page-Clark]

On 29/10/2020 18:27, Ryan Joseph via fpc-pascal wrote:
> Is it possible that the TypeInfo intrinsic could work with generic template types or is this a bug? I get "Illegal qualifier" in the procedure below.
>
> generic procedure DoThis<T>(a: array of T);
> begin
>    writeln(TypeInfo(T)^.name);
> end;
>
>
> Regards,
> 	Ryan Joseph
>
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What could .name return in this context?

"placeholder for an as-yet-unspecialised and unknown type"?