float package: get list of all floats defined with \newfloat?

Question

I develop a new package and as one functionality, I would need to get the list of all floats defined using the \newfloat command of the float package.

I could of course modify this command in mypackage.sty, but that would need mypackage loaded after float and before the usage of \newfloat, which I don't consider good. I found that there is a float@type counter that says (in a strange way) how many floats have been defined. However, there is no command \float@by@type{<number>}, that would return the name of the corresponding environment.

Any suggestions appreciated.

Answer 1

As far as I know there is no way to get back the float environment name from the number associated to it: the output routine operates just with the numbers. So I guess that the only way is to modify \newfloat.

However, the newfloat package should have the same functionality as float and maintains a \newfloat@list macro that contains all the defined float types.