Re: Experience with Large Applications in Lua?

[Daniel Silverstone <dsilvers@...>]

Jamie Webb wrote:
> In this vein though, it would still be nice if one could write in Lua
> something like:
>
> function foobar(String x, MyClass y) ... end
>
> Where String and MyClass are predicates aginst which the arguments can
> be checked, if enabled by an interpreter flag.

function String(x)
  return assert(type(x)=="string", "String expected, got " .. type(x))
end

function MyClass(x)
  return assert(classtype(x)=="MyClass", "MyClass expected, got " .. 
classtype(x))
end

:-)

D.