Re: Proposal: lua_getfield return the type of the value

[David Demelier <demelier.david@...>]

On 01/05/2014 09:36, Philipp Janda wrote:
> 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 ...
Ah nice, I haven't look the source and I just check in the Lua 5.3 
reference manual :-).