you are right. scrapping everything over and starting again

inspect.lua

@@ -5,133 +5,11 @@
 -- inspired by http://lua-users.org/wiki/TableSerialization
 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
---[[ usage:
-
-local inspect = require 'inspect'
--- or table.inspect = require 'inspect'
-
-t = { 1,2,3,4}
-
-print(inspect(t))
-
-{ 1
-
-}
-
-
-]]
-
--- Apostrophizes the string if it has quotes, but not aphostrophes
--- Otherwise, it returns regular a requilar quoted string
-local function smartQuote(str)
-  if string.match( string.gsub(v,"[^'\"]",""), '^"+$' ) then
-    return "'" .. v .. "'"
-  end
-  return string.format("%q", str )
-end
-
-local function isIdentifier(str)
-  return string.match( str, "^[_%a][_%a%d]*$" )
-end
-
-local bufferMethods = {
-  add = function(self, ...)
-    local args = {...}
-    for i=1, #args do
-      self.data[#self.data] = args[i]
-    end
-    return self
-  end,
-  tabify = function(self, level)
-    self:add(string.rep("  ", level))
-    return self
-  end,
-  line = function(self, ...)
-    local args = {...}
-    args[#args] = '\n'
-    self:add(unpack(args))
-    return self
-  end,
-  addKey = function(key, level)
-    if type(key) == "string" and isIdentifier(key) then
-      self:add(key)
-    else
-      self:add( "[", self:addValue(k, level) , "]")
-    end
-    return self
-  end,
-  addValue = function(v , level, key)
-    if type( v ) == "string" then
-      self:add(smartQuote(string.gsub( v, "\n", "\\n" )))
-    elseif type( v ) == "table"
-      self:inspect(v, level, key)
-    else
-      return tostring( v )
-    end
-    return self
-  end,
-  inspect = function(t, level, key)
-    level = level or 1
-    if level >= depth then
-      self:add('...')
-      return '...'
-    end
-
-    buffer:tabify(level)
-    if key then buffer:addKey(k, level):add(' = ') end
-    buffer:line('{')
-    local done = {}
-
-    for k, v in ipairs( tbl ) do
-      if k > 1 then addComma = true end
-      if addComma then buffer:add(', ') end
-      buffer:addValue( v, level + 1 )
-      done[ k ] = true
-    end
-
-    for k, v in pairs( tbl ) do
-      if not done[ k ] then
-        
-        buffer:line():tabify(level + 1)
-        buffer:addKey( k, level + 1 ):add(" = "):addValue( v, level + 1 ) )
-      end
-    end
-
-    buffer:tabify(level):line('}')
-
-    return tostring(self)
-  end
-}
-
-local newBuffer(depth)
-  return setmetatable({ data = {}, depth = depth }, {
-    __index = bufferMethods,
-    __tostring = function(t) table.concat(t.data) end
-})
-end
-
-
-
-
 -- public function
 
-local function inspect(t, depth)
-  depth = depth or 4
-  local buffer = newBuffer(depth)
-  return buffer:inspect(t)
-end
-
---[[
-  if(type(t)=='table') then
-    for k,object in pairs(t) do
-      print(string.rep("   ", level+1) .. tostring(k) .. ' => '.. tostring(object) )
-      if(type(object)=='table') then dump(object, level + 1) end
-    end
-  end
-end
-]]
-
+local function inspect(t)
+  return ""
 end
 
-return memoize
+return inspect