Re: Proposal: lua_getfield return the type of the value

[Philipp Janda <siffiejoe@...>]

Am 01.05.2014 09:21 schröbte David Demelier:
> Hi guys,

Hi!

> Some functions already return the type retrieved like lua_getuservalue,
> lua_getglobal. It would be nice to have the same behavior for
> lua_getfield. So one can easily do:
>
> if (lua_getfield(L, -2, "x") == LUA_TNUMBER)
>      x = lua_tointeger(L, -1);
> lua_pop(L, 1);

That already works in Lua-5.3work2. It is just not documented yet. But 
the same request could be made (not sure it hasn't) for 
`lua_getuservalue` which in Lua 5.3 works for multiple types ...

> Kind regards,
> David.

Philipp