Re: recursively traverse globals table from C API

["Raymond Jacobs" <raymondj@...>]

This is now slightly off-topic, but

I don't suppose there is a way to identify 'system' tables, such as
os,_G,math, and etc.?

-Raymond



On 1/19/07, Rici Lake <lua@ricilake.net> wrote:
> 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.