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Am 28.07.2015 um 05:45 schröbte Daurnimator:
In the faraway future, in whatever version of lua comes next:
It'd be nice if lua_topointer was exposed to lua code.
This would allow for users to get a unique value corresponding to a
given object.
Use cases:
- __tostring metamethods that have previously needed a `rawtostring`
(usually painstakingly created by removing the metatable and
then replacing it)
As an alternative, maybe we can have a new format specifier for `string.format` that calls `lua_topointer` on its argument (`%p` is still free I think) ...
- common value for comparison by e.g. table.sort
That wouldn't do much good, since light userdata don't have `<` defined (and the C standard makes this operator difficult to implement).
Anyway, both use cases probably shouldn't depend on a debug function. Philipp