Dumping Functions Sourcecode

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I have used Tcl for a while and I find the procedure "info body <procedures name>" quite handy and I long for it in Lua.

string.dump(<function)>) could be expanded to string.dump(<function>,<sourcecode?>) and if <sourcecode> is not nil then return the function's source code.

Example:

function bla (n)
  print(n)
end
print(string.dump(bla,true))

would print:

function (n)
  print(n)
end