Uint8ClampedArray returns `object` instead of `Uint8ClampedArray `

[miguelmota]

var kind = require('kind-of');
console.log(kind(new Uint8ClampedArray(3))); // 'object'

Shouldn't it be Uint8ClampedArray?

[tunnckoCore]

Actually, it seems that this is correct. Because value of new Uint8ClampedArray(3) seems like object to me. I'm not sure what is the correct behaving here.

We can add few checks

  if (val instanceof Array) {
    return 'array';
  }

and something like that

if (type.indexOf('Array') !== -1) {
  return 'array';
}

which will handle this "issue".

[miguelmota]

My suggestion for typed arrays

var obj = new Uint8ClampedArray(1);

var typedArrayTypes = ['Int8Array', 'Uint8Array', 'Uint8ClampedArray', 'Int16Array', 'Uint16Array', 'Int32Array', 'Uint32Array', 'Float32Array', 'Float64Array'];
var typeString = Object.prototype.toString.call(obj).match(/\s+(\w+)/i)[1];
var typeIndex = typedArrayTypes.indexOf(typeString);

if (typeIndex > -1) {
 console.log(typeString.toLowerCase()); // uint8clampedarray
}

[tunnckoCore]

I think we should return array, imo.

[miguelmota]

That doesn't seem like the right thing to do considering that typed arrays are there own types, like Map and Set

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Data_structures

(new Uint8ClampedArray(1)) instanceof Array // false

PR https://github.com/jonschlinkert/kind-of/pull/5

[jonschlinkert]

I believe this is resolved