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From: baldwin@usna.MIL (J.D. Baldwin)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Another various question about TP 5.0
Message-ID: <303@usna.MIL>
Date: 30 Nov 89 16:21:16 GMT
Reply-To: baldwin@cad.usna.mil (J.D. Baldwin)
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Is there a good, clean way to convert the value of an enumerated ordinal
type to a string value?

That is, what does the function ConverterFunction(somevalue:sometype) : string
look like in this fragment:

    type veggies = (carrots, limabeans, beets, toadstools);  . . .
    var  whatveg : veggies; . . .

    whatveg := carrots;
    . . .
    writeln(ConverterFunction(whatveg));

so that the writeln statement will output the string "carrots"?  This question
is not exactly mission-critical to me, but an answer would be nice.  If 
replies are by e-mail, I'll summarize.
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