Re: An alternative to the "continue" statement

["Javier Guerra" <javier@...>]

On 2/26/08, Fabien <fleutot+lua@gmail.com> wrote:
> Basically, it lets qualify a loop header with additional properties like
> "if", "while", "until", "for". Many "break"s in for loops can be replaced
> with:

i like this.  of course, 'deep' breaks are usually convenient.  'deep'
continues not so much, IMO.

taking it to an extreme, i think 'if', 'while', 'until' and 'for'
(both variants) could be chainable blocks, terminated by a 'do' or
'then' ('else' too?), so you could write:

for k,v in pairs(t) while itsok(k) do
    ...
end

if whatever(x) until finish(y) then
    ...
end

while going(a) if keeps(b) for c=ever(d) until tired(e) do
   ...
end

does that make any sense??

i kind of like it... but not sure... it's weird

-- 
Javier