> Thats really nice. It would be nice if the pretty printer could try calling
> __tostring' on stuff it doesnt understand (c types) in the hope of getting
> a printable version.
It already does that, doesn't it? Try this for example:
> f = io.open ("/usr/bin/lua")
> f
file (0xc229f0)
> f:close()
true
OK, they were LuaJIT cdata items, which it thinks are blank, and doesnt call __tostring or print cdata when it prints them in a table, only on their own:
> w.inet6[1].addr
{
addr = ,
cacheinfo = ,
ifaddr = ,
}
> tostring(w.inet6[1].addr)
"2001:460:1f09:1a62:dd55:27b5:d001:a421"
> type(w.inet6[1].addr)
"cdata"
> w.inet6[1].addr
"cdata"
It would be nice if it called __tostring for these.
Justin
