Re: Just a small request

["Leo Razoumov" <slonik.az@...>]

On 1/24/07, Hugo Etchegoyen <hetchegoyen@hasar.com> wrote:
>  [..snip..]
>  But being a seasoned C/C++ programmer, there is only one thing I miss a
> lot: a continue statement! Please, please, I know that people asking for new
> features to be added to a language usually annoy its designers, and
> generally for good reason. But I honestly think this would be a great
> addition which would cost practically nothing and would benefit the language
> and make it more coherent.
>  [..snip..]

Hugo,
you can fake continue with a "break" inside until...repeat construct, see
http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2006-12/msg00440.html

The price to pay is that your "break" effectively becomes "continue"
in this scope.

Hope it helps,
--Leo--