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I'm not sure if this is a bug, but sometimes the .name field doesnt contain the name, but an object...
for example for player.cursor_ghost
you'd expect .name to be a string, right?

It's weird that it's called "name", but that's the intended behavior. I found it a while ago and they updated the docs.

See:
https://lua-api.factorio.com/latest/con ... DPair.html

Linked from:
https://lua-api.factorio.com/latest/cla ... rsor_ghost

so when you wanna read the name you write "something.name.name" ? kinda weird but ok
especially since it's inconsistent

Yup that's right. I agree it really ought to be named "item" or something like that. And so far only seems to affect cursor_ghost?

I made a similar bug report a while ago; 123575
Here it is that get_filter(1) gives a prototype for a name or a string depending on the type of entity it is called on, I did not realize there were other cases.

https://lua-api.factorio.com/latest/cla ... ly_burning

currently_burning.name is also item prototype

meanwhile that.burnt_result.name is a string again.

this is ridiculous