Distinguish between different userdata

[lostbuthappy]

Hello Wörld!
I just downloaded löve the other day and boy do I love it! Lua seems a bit strange at first (when you come from C++, that is), but I think I got it now... well, almost: How do I distinguish between different userdata like Image or Animation?

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doStuff(myImage)
function doStuff(...)
  if type(arg[1]) == "Image" then -- won't work, type returns userdata
    -- do this
  end
end

From what I read, Lua itself is not capable of that and my own experiments revealed that the type() is always "userdata". So I guess developers have to provide their own typeOf/isA-function or something like that, but I could not find anything about that in the docs/wiki.

Hope you guys can help me out. Thanks in advance!
lbh

[bartbes]

This is not yet possible in 0.5.0, yet there is a way to do this in 0.6.0 (or there should be, I don't know the exact status): you can use tostring to tell you what kind of object it is.

[lostbuthappy]

Thanks for your reply. When 0.6.0 is stable, I'll check it out. Until then I hope the missing asserts won't do too much harm :~)