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```inline fun &lt;reified C&gt; name() = C::class.simpleName

name&lt;Collection&lt;String&gt;&gt;()```
this returns “Collection”. is there a way make it return “Collection&lt;String&gt;“?

You lose the element type information as soon as you do `C::class`, because the `KClass` type simply doesn't have that information. What you need is `KType`, which you can get from a reified `C` using `typeOf&lt;C&gt;()`.

I don't know off the top of my head how to get a nice string for its name from the `KType`, but you might be able to figure that out

ah typeOf was exactly what I need, thanks

`KType.toString()` will get you `kotlin.collections.Collection&lt;kotlin.String&gt;`

if you want the simple names you'll have to walk through it yourself, I don't think there's a built-in utility for it