Re: I'd give my right arm for a continue statement

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

On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 23:37, Dirk Laurie <dpl@sun.ac.za> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 06:12:35AM +0200, Leo Razoumov wrote:
>> Seriously though, in dynamical languages it is difficult to "skip
>> forward" while it is easier to "skip backward".

> In Lua, "skip forward to end of current chunk" is also easy.
>
> I.e. "break".
>
> Dirk
>

In Lua "chunk" is a unit of execution (see [1]) and is represented by
an anonymous function. "break" will not exit from chunk, use "return"
instead.

[1]  http://www.lua.org/manual/5.1/manual.html#2.4.1

--Leo--