Re: question about cdata type identification

[Tony Finch <dot@...>]

Francesco Abbate <francesco.bbt@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> For the other side you could implement a method called, let say, 'ctype'
> that return its ctype as a string. Since you can define the __index
> metamethods this is rechnically possible. The problem is in this case
> that if I call x.ctype() when x is another cdata which is not aware of
> this convention an error can be raised. Of course you can catch the
> error but the function would begin to look seriously over-complicated.

Surely if that happens there is a bug somewhere else that should be fixed.

Tony.
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