Re: Features you would like to see

[Stephen Kellett <lua@...>]

Rob Kendrick wrote:
> 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?

I don't know. I'm not the most skilled Lua user going. I know a fair bit 
about Lua internals (and various other scripting languages) but I'm not 
that experienced at actually using Lua (most of my work is in C++ and 
assembly).

How would I check that from C?

Now that you've pointed me in direction I'll get out Roberto's book and 
have a read about Tables and the registry.

Stephen