Re: Why does this exit the function early?

[Mike Crowe <drmikecrowe@...>]

You were using "break" as if it were "continue", which lua doesn't have.

break terminates the while loop.

Paul Butler wrote:
> Newbie question.....
>
> Why does the "break" end the function?
> I was expecting it to count to 10 and just skip over 5.
>
>
>
> function doThis()
>   local count = 0
>   while true do
>     count = count + 1
> 	if count == 5 then break end
> 	print(count)
> 	if count == 10 then return end
>   end
>   print("why are we here?")
> end
>
> doThis()
>
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