Re: Next Version of Lua?

[Asko Kauppi <askok@...>]

Roberto Ierusalimschy kirjoitti 10.6.2009 kello 21:03:

> > Every person I train in Lua asks me why 'continue' doesn't work.  I  
> > show
> > them the "equivalent", and it never meets with any kind of  
> > satisfaction.
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > I'm in the camp where I see a real need for it in Lua, not only for
> > clarity, but because it is a very useful loop construct that anyone
> > coming from another popular (scripting) language will expect to be  
> > able
> > to use.
>
> Any comment about this?
>
>  http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2005-09/msg00548.html
>
> -- Roberto

It is curious that the number of times I have missed 'continue'  
exceeds the number of times I've needed 'repeat' (which is 0).

But that's just me. :)

-asko