Re: upcoming changes in Lua 5.2 [was Re: Location of a package]

[Renato Maia <maia@...>]

On 26 Feb 2008, at 14:14, Mark Hamburg wrote:
> The primary case I find myself faking continue in Lightroom is  
> loops of the
> form:
>
>     while true do repeat
>
>         if not test_condition_1() then
>             wait_for_semaphore_1()
>             break -- continue
>         end
>
>         if not test_condition_2() then
>             wait_for_semaphore_2()
>             break -- continue
>         end
>
>         -- conditions 1 and 2 now hold
>
>     until true end


I'm probably missing something, but what's wrong with the following  
code?

while true do

    if not test_condition_1() then
        wait_for_semaphore_1()

    elseif not test_condition_2() then
        wait_for_semaphore_2()

    else
        -- conditions 1 and 2 now hold
    end

end


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