typeof() erroneously behaves the same way as type()

Question

typeof() erroneously behaves the same way as type()

Closed this issue a year ago · 2 comments

typeof(), a function exclusive to Luau, seems to behave similarly or identical to type(), which should not be the case.
One example is to feed an instance to typeof, like typeof(Instance.new("DataModel")); this should return Instance but userdata is printed instead.

Answer 1 · 2023-04-14T11:18:18.000Z

Marked this as a bug since we definitely want behavior to be consistent here, but really it is just because we haven't implemented any special handling for typeof and our custom userdatas.

Answer 2 · 2023-05-26T07:39:47.000Z

Fixed for next release in 151d8cc