ltype

Faster type() function made by storing typenames in closure upvalues.

Installation

I prefer to user versioned luarocks:

git clone https://github.com/keplerproject/luarocks.git

./configure --lua-version=5.1 --versioned-rocks-dir
make build
sudo make install

./configure --lua-version=5.2 --versioned-rocks-dir
make build
sudo make install

Now we can install ltype:

git clone https://github.com/rafis/ltype.git
cd ltype
sudo luarocks-5.1 install rockspec/ltype-1.0-1.rockspec
sudo luarocks-5.2 install rockspec/ltype-1.0-1.rockspec

Usage

When you require("ltype") the type() function in global namespace will be replaced with closured version.

require("ltype")

assert(type("abc") == "string")