Re: [ANN] Lua 5.2.0 (beta-rc1) goto syntax

[Charles Nicholson <charles.nicholson@...>]

+1 vote for switch/case!

On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 7:57 AM, Fabio Kaminski <fabiokaminski@gmail.com> wrote:

dont forget that :

"goto label"

will become

"goto 0x4df3..."   or JMP <ADDR>

when compiled.. so why complicate?

when i was in need of goto in  C (specially in parsers) a simple goto
always solved the problem.. :)

by the way.. im ignorant in the 5.2 spec.. does it includes "switch"?
i miss it..

On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 3:46 PM, HyperHacker <hyperhacker@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 12:37, Alexandre Erwin Ittner
> <alexandre@ittner.com.br> wrote:
>> 2011/6/16 HyperHacker <hyperhacker@gmail.com>:
>>
>>> I suppose there's no technical reason you couldn't have all three:
>>
>> Too much new reserved words breaking existing code? Language complexity?
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>
> Those aren't technical reasons. (Not that they aren't good reasons...)
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