Re: how to prevent bugs without static type checking?

[Thijs Schreijer <thijs@...>]

Fwiw; you can access the registry through the debug library

Thijs


Geoff Leyland <geoff_leyland@fastmail.fm> wrote:

>On 24/10/2012, at 10:43 PM, Thijs Schreijer <thijs@thijsschreijer.nl> wrote:
>
>> I think this could combine very well with this message;
>> http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2012-10/msg00122.html 
>> 
>> If the "typical" library by Rob Hoelz can be combined with my "typex"
>> library, then that could pretty much fill this gap.
>
>I tried to get typical's functionality by looking for __type, but I forgot to call it if it's a function.  Your typex is harder, since you can't access the registry from Lua.  I could pcall(require) your version, and act appropriately if it's available.
>
>> A preprocessor that can be run on the command line (similar to LuaCov usage)
>> would be nice then to prevent extra manual steps in the process
>
>It's not a preprocessor in the sense that Steve suggested, but you do just go "lua -largcheck file.lua" like you do with luacov and luatrace.