Re: [ANN] Lua 5.2.0 (beta-rc1) now available

[Tomas Guisasola Gorham <tomas@...>]

On Tue, 14 Jun 2011, Roberto Ierusalimschy wrote:
> > > Maybe it would be safer to be a compilation error, but this is tricky.
> > > Consider the next, similar code:
> > >
> > > do
> > > goto label
> > > do
> > >   @label: -- 1
> > > end
> > > @label: -- 2
> > > end
> > > @label: -- 0
> > >
> > > Now, when the compiler sees label 0, label 2 and label 1 are out of
> > > scope, so it makes no sense to raise an error.
> > 	It would hurt the compiler to stop on label 2 (raising an error)
> > to avoid confusion?
>
> I am talking about the conflict between label 2 and label 0; assume
> label 1 is not present. How the compiler can stop on label 2?
	Sure!  And I am talking about the confusion in my mind :-)
	I understand your point and I think it wouldn't hurt to avoid
this situation at all with a compilation error.

	Regards,
		Tomás