Re: proposal: state machine syntax also usable for continue / nested break

[Florian Weimer <fw@...>]

* Miles Bader:

> Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de> writes:
>>>> In Lua, we favor generic and powerful constructs. Actually, a 'goto'
>>>> would be almost perfect.
>>>
>>> Can we  have computed go to? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goto#Computed_GOTO
>>
>> Lua supports efficient tail calls, so it already has a computed GOTO.
>
> ... which brings to mind "named let" (from scheme) -- that'd be one
> answer to the calls for continue... :]

Huh.  I didn't realize that this was part of Scheme.  I thought that
it was a Javascript innovation, where function expressions can be
named.