Re: "Stringizing" a variable name

["simonhaines" <simonhaines@...>]

Thanks for that, I should have remembered that from perl's hash
syntax, which is exactly the decoupling I was after.
Thanks again.
Simon.


--- In lua-l@y..., Tom <tom7ca@y...> wrote:
> 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@y...> 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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