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

[David Kastrup <dak@...>]

Frank Meier-Dörnberg <frank@md-web.de> writes:

> On 13.06.2011 22:27, Alexandre Erwin Ittner wrote:
>> [...]
>> A "label" keyword would be great too, but it will break so much code.
>>
>> [...]
> Yesterday Xavier Wang brought to mind an alternative.
> I'm missing a reaction to that:
>
> "maybe using a local variable scope for goto destination is better
> than define a (whatever) label statement."
>
> In my words: Use "local mark" instead of "label mark" or "@mark:"
> I must admit that I have not thought about whether that is
> semantically clever.
> What are thepros and cons?

How would that work with jumping forward?

local mark
goto mark
local mark

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David Kastrup