Re: (no subject)

[Benoit Germain <bnt.germain@...>]

2012/1/12 Dirk Laurie <dirk.laurie@gmail.com>

The reference manual says:

   void *luaL_checkudata (lua_State *L, int narg, const char *tname);

   Checks whether the function argument narg is a userdata of the
type tname ...

Is there any way to find out from Lua what the registry type of a
userdata is, short
of giving it a `type` method?

I often use the __metatable field of the metatable for this. A side effect of the protection it offers is that it can store a type too. I set it to some string that I'll get when calling getmetatable(o). Of course this works only for the metatables I populated that way.

-- 
Benoit.