Re: recursively traverse globals table from C API

[Rici Lake <lua@...>]

On 19-Jan-07, at 9:57 PM, Raymond Jacobs wrote:

> And if not, is the fact that i am asking for a string (lua_tostring),
> all the time for the table key a problem?

Yes. Either lua_tostring() will change the key into something else, 
which is a problem, or it will return NULL, which might cause your 
writeString() function to segfault.
> One thing i noticed is the first element's key in the subtable is "1",
> which I wasn't expecting, but I guess it uses numbers if you dont
> supply an actual key.

Numbers are "actual" keys. Tables are mappings from the set of Lua 
objects into the set of Lua objects.