custom types (Re: Features you would like to see)
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- Subject: custom types (Re: Features you would like to see)
- From: Asko Kauppi <askok@...>
- Date: 2007年8月17日 21:18:07 +0300
I've done this by overriding 'type()' to look for a '__type' field in
the metatable, first.
Allows me to have userdata that reports as enum, xxx (xxx being the
enum family name, yes, type() returns two values then.
Could use the same for making a table return class, xxx or anything.
Changing this does not need changes in Lua itself, but a common
convention could be good to have. My code for doing this is in a
separate 'type.lua' that will be require'd by code relying on this
behaviour.
-asko
Stephen Kellett kirjoitti 17.8.2007 kello 12:24:
Patrick Donnelly wrote:
I'm curious what features people would like to see added to Lua.
This comment is from the perspective of a software tool developer.
In that context I am talking about inspecting Lua internals and Lua
objects from C.
I'd like to see the ability to actually get a class name for a
class object. Currently when you query an object for its type (from
C) you just get "Table", which is not very useful. Its much more
useful to know that a "Weeble" object is possibly leaking (look
there are 10,000 of the critters!) rather than noticing the Table
count has increased by 10,000.
I was talking with Bob Pappas from Adobe(*) yesterday (we were
talking about the Lua Memory Validator product I am involved with)
and this issue came up - he had lots of Table objects but we
couldn't tell which class/type each object was. It limits the info
you can get from a tool like Lua Memory Validator (or any tools
like it, not that I am aware of any others for Lua).
Cheers
Stephen
(*) Sorry the name dropping but I've mentioned this because it did
happen and it shows that big names are using Lua and interested in
issues such as this.