Re: "Stringizing" a variable name

[Tom <tom7ca@...>]

You want

for k,v in globals() do
   print(k .. "= " .. type(v))
end

Note that once the value of the variable has been bound to "i",
its original name is lost.  That's the way almost all programming
languages work these days (including C++).

--- simonhaines <simonhaines@yahoo.com.au> wrote:
> I'm trying to find the Lua counterpart for the C++ '#' directive (turn
> a variable name into a string). Is there one? Such that:
>   g = globals()
>   foreach(g, function(i, v) print( *stringize(i)* .."= "..type(v)))
> 
> Thanks,
> Simon
> 


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