Re: continue continued, with break N

[HyperHacker <hyperhacker@...>]

On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 07:30, Joshua Jensen <josh.jjensen@gmail.com> wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Axel Kittenberger
> Date: 11/19/2010 2:00 AM
>>
>> I've another idea how to capture full loop functionality, in a way
>> I've not yet seen in another language.
>> 1) continue as new keyword - better just get over with it, than to
>> overload existing keywords with new functions that are contrary to
>> their everyday meaning - like break as continue..
>> 2) let continue take an optional argument to how often call the
>> iterator for for loops.
>>
>> continue   -- like in C, do next iteration
>> continue 1 -- synonymous to continue - call iterator once
>> continue 0 -- goes to start of loop calling the iterator 0 times - "redo"
>> continue 2(or more) -- calls the iterator twice, skiping one
>>
>> continue -1 -- error! cannot reverse iterate (with n..m..k loops this
>> might theoretically work, but not with genericf for loops)
>>
>> thinking about e.g. argument parsing, this continue X would be a dream!
>
> FWIW, both proposals are interesting, but I would be happy with just a
> simple 'continue' keyword that works according to the already existing patch
> for Lua 5.1.
>
> Josh
>
>

Agreed. As neat as numbered break/continue are, I'd be satisfied with
just C-style continue.

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