Can you please make metatables output optionally disablable? about inspect.lua HOT 5 CLOSED

local function no_meta(item, path)
    if path[#path] == inspect.METATABLE then
        return {item.__class}
    end
    return item
end

--- Inspect the class
function Core.inspect(self)
    return inspect(self, {process = no_meta})
end

local inspect = require "inspect"

local function no_meta_with_description(item, path)
  if path[#path] == inspect.METATABLE then
    return { __tostring = item.__tostring }
  end
  return item
end

local function my_inspect(t)
  return inspect(t, {process = no_meta_with_description})
end


--- tests:
local person_mt = {
  __tostring = function(t) return "A person named " .. t.name end
}
-- add 100 fields to person_mt
for i=1,100 do
  person_mt["field" .. tostring(i)] = true
end


local peter = setmetatable({ name = "peter" }, person_mt)
local john = setmetatable({ name = "john" }, person_mt)

print(my_inspect(peter))
print(my_inspect(john))

{ -- A person named peter
  name = "peter",
  <metatable> = {
    __tostring = <function 1>
  }
}
{ -- A person named john
  name = "john",
  <metatable> = {
    __tostring = <function 1>
  }
}