4.1 work3 lua_getGlobal

["Russell Y. Webb" <rw20@...>]

I'm a bit puzzled.  I have a global table called 'name' defined with
name = {}

The following C code never executes the code inside the condition
    lua_getglobal(lua, "name");
    if(lua_istable(lua, 1)){
        // this code never executes
    }

while the following lua code works fine
    if type(name) == 'table' then
        // this code does run
    end

Obviously I'm doing something wrong in the C version but I can't see what it
is.  It's likely to be the 1 in lua_istable, but why?

Haven't tried this with 4.0 yet.

Russ