Type Checking Methods

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#1

Hey everyone. This may be a simple question to answer, however, I couldn’t find any articles online that helped with this.

I am fairly new to using the typeof function, and I find it extremely useful. The question I have is, how would you use typeof without calling a method on a class (module script)? I can say typeof(class.new()), and it solves the type issue I am having, however, I don’t want to call said function.

Any answers are appreciated; thank you in advance.

local class = {}
class.__index = class
local databases: {[string]: typeof(class.new)} = {}
#2

It does not call the function at runtime.

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#3

Does it not? Probably should have tested that before making this post. Sorry for wasting your time. Thank you so much for your quick response.

#4

Nah it doesn’t, any type checking-related syntax is discarded when the code is compiled.

There is one known exception, that is when using a type assertion on a multi-value return, but in most cases people aren’t running into that.

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