Re: Lua 5.2 and continue

[David Kastrup <dak@...>]

Ben Kelly <ranavin@gmail.com> writes:

> Linker wrote:
>> You can just put the loop into a function replacing "continue" with
>> "return".
>> 
> And add some more code to distinguish return-as-break and
> return-as-continue, and before you know it the loop is looking quite
> ugly and you're eyeing Metalua speculatively.

i = 1
while i<10 and
  (function()
    if i%2 == 1 then return true end
    if i == 8 then return false end
    print(i)
    return true
  end)() do
  i = i+1
end

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David Kastrup