Type == boolean

[tentus]

Tripped over this problem this evening and was wondering if I'm missing something obvious. I'm converting misc data to strings for output, and found this to not work at all:

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if type(foo) == boolean then

By contrast, this works just fine:

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if type(foo) == string then

Any ideas?

[slime]

boolean is (probably) a nil value. string is a table. type(val) returns a string with the type name, therefore you need to compare it to another string:

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if type(foo) == "boolean" then print("bool") elseif type(foo) == "string" then print("str") end

[tentus]

Ooooh, that's... painfully obvious now that you explain it to me. Ah well, live and learn! (Hanging on the edge of tomorrow...)