Re: "continue" construct in Lua loops

[Javier Guerra <javier@...>]

On Thursday 21 December 2006 8:21 am, Roberto Ierusalimschy wrote:
> > Is there a more elegant way?
>
> No :(  (At least you can be confident that the generated opcode is
> as good as for a primitive continue ;)

i guess both metalua's and token filter's wizards will soon present their 
solutions.

but this is not the first time this has been discussed. i beleive there was a 
serious semantic problem; but i can't remember it now

i'd really wish there was a 'continue' statement, in fact i've been using deep 
if's, for me the 'break out of repeat' construct is an improvement!!


-- 
Javier

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