Human-readable representation of Lua tables
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h1. inspect.lua
This function transform any Lua table into a human-readable representation of that table.
The objective here is human understanding (i.e. for debugging), not serialization or compactness.
h1. Examples of use
h1. Gotchas / Warnings
h1. Installation
Just copy the inspect.lua file somewhere in your projects (maybe inside a /lib/ folder) and require it accordingly.
Remember to store the value returned by require somewhere! (I suggest a local variable named inspect, altough others might like table.inspect)
<pre>
local inspect = require 'inspect'
-- or --
table.inspect = require 'inspect'
</pre>
Also, make sure to read the license file; the text of that license file must appear somewhere in your projects' files.
h1. Specs
This project uses "telescope":https://github.com/norman/telescope for its specs. If you want to run the specs, you will have to install telescope first. Then just enter the spec folder and execute run.lua:
<pre>
cd path/to/inspect.lua/specs
lua run.lua
</pre>