Re: 'continue' keyword

[Philippe Lhoste <PhiLho@...>]

Benoit Germain <bgermain@ubisoft.fr> wrote in
news:5D2A198567EED311BD0F009027A25C87DAD116@SRVMAIL-ANN: 

> I was putting together a little powerpoint slide (argh! yuck!) to give
> an overview of LUA to a few colleagues, and I was writing a comment
> about 'break' being here to break out of loops, and I thought that there
> is no 'continue' keyword. Is this because nobody ever needed it, or is
> there some other reason ? It could be useful though...

I believe this question has been raised already.

I tried to search the archive using the Web interface, but the
<http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/> URL seems broken, I got a directory
listing (with only the 2002-05 folder, containing only msg00159.html)
instead of the search form. 

Searching 'continue' in the old (January) archive I have on my hard disk,
I see the topic was first mentioned on 30 Oct 1997! Message-Id:
<199710300318.JAA05107@odusv.oduurl.ru> A lot of people stated they miss
continue (and break, which wasn't in the language at the time). 

Another request was in 15 Sep 2000 Message-ID:
<ce.aa17026.26f3498f@aol.com>, and I think it was asked recently too. 

Now, I can't remember the official answer :-)

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