Re: [PROPOSAL] more luaL_check* in lauxlib.h (for Lua 5.2)

[Miles Bader <miles@...>]

Tomas Guisasola Gorham <tomas@tecgraf.puc-rio.br> writes:
> 	I think there is no efficient way to check if a given object
> is callable.  I would say that one should protect-call it and check if
> it throws an error.  Thus you'd better not check it :-)

isn't it just

function callable (x)
  return type(x) == 'function' or getmetatable(x).__call
end

?

-Miles

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