Re: Nameless labels?

[Kaj Eijlers <bizziboi@...>]

Hmmm, is this a common idiom? I must have programmed in 20 or so languages and have never seen this, so am not surprised that Lua doesn't support it.

Also, it doesn't exactly improve readability.

As an aside, assembly is pretty elegant Rena, it's just low level but it's pretty straightforward to read and hardly ever confusing unless done intentional.

On Sat, Jan 11, 2014 at 9:59 AM, Rena <hyperhacker@gmail.com> wrote:

On 2014-01-11 12:58 PM, "Thiago L." <fakedme@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Why doesn't Lua have nameless labels or something?
>
> Would look somewhat like this:
>     local s = "start"
>     ::@::
>     print s
>     if s == "restart" then
>         goto +
>     end
>     if s == "start" then
>         s = "restart"
>         goto -
>     end
>     ::@::
>     print "end"
>

Because that looks hideous. This isn't assembly.