Re: Getting metatable's name.

[Sean Conner <sean@...>]

It was thus said that the Great Laurent FAILLIE once stated:
> 
> So, now, from Lua's side,  how to retrieve metatable's name ???? (in my case, "SelTimedWindowCollection")
> I tried to test against the metatable itself but it doesn't work :
> print( getmetatable(col.getCollection()), SelTimedWindowCollection )-> table: 0xb79650d8       table: 0xb7965100

  Starting with Lua 5.3, the metatable will have a __name field, as
mentioned in the documentation for luaL_newmetatable().  For earlier
versions of Lua, you will have to call debug.getregistry() and manually scan
it for the name.

	mt = getmetatable(thing)
	reg = debug.getregistry()
	for name,value in pairs(reg) do
	  if value == mt then
	    print(name)
	    break
	  end
	end

  -spc