Re: Lua: "Portuguese for 'Javascript'"

[Tim Hill <drtimhill@...>]

On Sep 6, 2013, at 10:28 PM, Dirk Laurie <dirk.laurie@gmail.com> wrote:

> 2013/9/7 Rena <hyperhacker@gmail.com>:
> 
>> Lacking continue in Lua is one of those things that's always bothered and
>> baffled me, especially as it has break already. You can use goto, but what's
>> easier to read, a statement that means "advance to the next iteration of the
>> loop" in several languages, or a goto, where you have to seek down to the
>> end of the loop to find the target, which then takes you back to the
>> beginning?
> 
> Actually 'continue' means "advance to the next iteration of the innermost
> loop" in those languages, and users of those languages have no way
> to say "advance to the next iteration of the next-level containing loop".
> Lua 5.2 users have all the options, incuding the habitual use 'continue'
> or 'continue_K' for a label at the end of a loop.
> 

"goto considered useful" :)

--Tim