Re: continue keyword - since there is goto now, maybe reconsider continue?

[Tim Hill <drtimhill@...>]

On Jan 10, 2014, at 12:33 AM, Dirk Laurie <dirk.laurie@gmail.com> wrote:

> 2014/1/9 Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo <lhf@tecgraf.puc-rio.br>:
>>> What about natively supporting continue in an upcoming Lua version?
>> 
>> This has been exhaustively discussed here in the past and these discussions
>> have led to goto as a more general alternative. See the archives:
>>        http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/
>> 
>> I appreciate that you are relatively new here, but I don't think we want to
>> go through all that again.
> 
> It's still early in the New Year. Even Lua programmers don't yet have
> better things to do than building castles in the air.
> 

Why do you consider a newcomer asking what he feels to be a legitimate question as “building castles in the air”?

The FAQ says the mailing list is “... a friendly and active one called lua-l. Everyone is welcome.” Perhaps we should all remember that there is no such thing as a dumb question...

—Tim