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

[Miles Bader <miles@...>]

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... :]

-miles

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