Re: Features you would like to see

[Rob Kendrick <lua-l@...>]

Stephen Kellett wrote:

> I'd like to see the ability to actually get a class name for a class 
> object. Currently when you query an object for its type (from C) you 
> just get "Table", which is not very useful. Its much more useful to know 
> that a "Weeble" object is possibly leaking (look there are 10,000 of the 
> critters!) rather than noticing the Table count has increased by 10,000.

Isn't the usual way of solving this problem to keep a mapping in the 
registry between the meta-table and type name?

B.