Contributor: STEVEN TALLENT (* > is there any way to write an inverse Ord function for any type? > Type Color = (RED, BLUE, GREEN, VIOLET, PURPLE); > Var Whatever : Color; > Begin > Writeln ('Red: ',Ord(Red); { Will print Red: 0 } > Writeln ('Inverse of Ord of Red:,InvOrd(0,Color); { Should spit out RED } > End. > For the function I had this in mind: > Function InvOrd(TypeOrd : Integer; SpecifyType : SomeType) : SomeType; > Begin > { What goes here? } > End. In a running program, variables are not really accessed by name, but by address, and their names don't show up in the final EXE. The only way I know to do such a thing is to add: *) Const Red = 1; Purple = 5; InvOrd : Array [Red..Purple] of String[6] = ('Red', 'Blue', 'Green', 'Violet', 'Purple'); { And then access this array like: } begin WriteLn('Inverse of Ord of Red:', InvOrd[Red]); end.