Re: [patch] continue statement

[Shannon Stewman <stew@...>]

On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 11:06:37AM -0700, Chris Marrin wrote:

> >Here is another example where a standard way to do non-local exit would
> >help.  The syntax was proposed in
> >http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2005-08/msg00357.html
> 
> Javascript (and others) do this with labelled break and continue. It 
> lets you do this:

The advantage to the block(nle) ... end form is you can pass the
non-local exit as a parameter to functions, so it can serve as an
exception system.  I just tried to show another use that would avoid
cluttering the language with more keywords (break,continue,etc.).

Cheers!

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