Peter Gerwinski wrote:

If everybody agrees that there should be an extension like this in GPC: It's probably not so hard to implement. Suggestions for the syntax? Objections against it?

Why not? If it's not too much work to do. Could it be a problem if Ord(EnumVal)<0 ? I don't see any. Suggestion: type TComparisonResult=(Less value -1, Equals, Greater, Strange value 10); i.e. Ord(Less)=-1, Ord(Equals)=0, Ord(Greater)=1, Ord(Strange)=10. Disadvantage: Range checking will get more difficult. -- Frank Heckenbach, Erlangen, Germany heckenb@mi.uni-erlangen.de Turbo Pascal: http://www.mi.uni-erlangen.de/~heckenb/programs.htm Internet links: http://www.mi.uni-erlangen.de/~heckenb/links.htm