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On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 7:48 PM, Mark Hamburg <mark@grubmah.com> wrote:
> You can't know the type of the receiver in Python either, so if Python editors can do it, then Lua editors ought to be able to do so as well.

I'd be curious to know what heuristics they're using, because it is
not possible in theory to do this precisely without full access to
run-time information.

Unless (of course) we are in a debugger session - then the type is
known and can be introspected.