Re: New scoping rule for "repeat" and "continue" patch

[Chris Marrin <chris@...>]

Roberto Ierusalimschy wrote:
> > Not to mean any disrespect to the great designers of Lua, but the 
> > designers of C certainly thought about this long and hard and made the 
> > decision to keep it out of the inner scope, probably for exactly this 
> > reason. So following that wisdom might be a good choice.
>
>
> I revere Thompson and Ritchie, but if we follow that reasoning we should
> also forbid "mixed declaration and code" and several other mechanisms
> different from C. (Actually we should have implemented C, not Lua :)

Yes, I understand that sentiment. But let's not get into the "we need to 
do it this way because C did it the other way and we need to be 
different from C" trap :-)

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