Re: upcoming changes in Lua 5.2 [was Re: Location of a package]

[Mark Hamburg <mhamburg@...>]

on 2/23/08 3:19 PM, dcharno at dcharno@comcast.net wrote:

> Shmuel Zeigerman wrote:
>> I'm upset to find that adding 'continue' is not even being considered.
>> (Just to let you know that there still are ones that miss it).
> 
> Its one of the things we really miss when using Lua ...

I've learned to write:

    while condition() do repeat

        if other_condition() then
            break -- continue
        end        

    until true end

But I always feel compelled to comment it when I do so.

Mark