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- Subject: Random thought: type(v) -> type, subtype, ... ?
- From: Kim Alvefur <zash@...>
- Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2017 14:22:03 +0100
Just a thought.
On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 10:17:39PM -0800, Tim Hill wrote:
> As I’ve pointed out before, type() needs to respect an __type() metamethod.
What if type() would return multiple values? Consider numbers in 5.3,
they have the sub-types of float and integer. So for example:
type(1.0) -> "number", "float"
type(x) -> rawtype(x), callmeta(x, "__type")
More thoughts?
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Regards,
Zash
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