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

[Frank Meier-Dörnberg <frank@...>]

On 15.06.2011 18:02, Eduardo Ochs wrote:
> What about this syntax?
>    local :mark:
>    goto mark
An educational question. :-)
1. Idea: "@mark:" (use of special chars, labels differ from normal code)
2. Idea: "label mark" (avoid use of special chars, use special keyword, 
labels differ from normal code not much)
3. Idea: "local mark" (avoid any specials beside semantic novelties, 
labels do not differ from normal code in any aspect)
4. Idea: "local :mark:" (use of special chars, labels differ from normal 
code, Oh! Thats we are starting from...)

Personally IMHO:
1. Idea is a little to special for my eyes (but may change with time).
2. Idea looks "normal" to my eyes. Good or not: Not very prominent 
(beside some clever syntax highlighting)
3. Idea may be to somewhat tricky but open for some other jump-like 
things (earlier mentioned by others):
    "break mark" to jump beyond the scope of variable "mark"
    "continue mark" to jump to the beginning of the scope of variable 
"mark"

As Lua-Style somewhere is described as: "Concept before Convention" (I 
unfortunately do not remember the exact wording).
So: What will best meet this target?

--Frank