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

[Roberto Ierusalimschy <roberto@...>]

> IMO, the value of having 'continue' would be much greater than that of this 
> scope rule. I'd love to see canceling this rule in favor of adding 
> 'continue'. That is, the expression-parameter of 'until' would resolve its 
> variables in the scope enclosing the repeat loop.

My point was not to present that as a reason to avoid 'continue', but to
present a real example of how simple and innocent changes to a language
can have hidden and pernicious side effects.

-- Roberto