Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de> writes:
In Lua, we favor generic and powerful constructs. Actually, a 'goto'
would be almost perfect.
Can we have computed go to? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goto#Computed_GOTO
Lua supports efficient tail calls, so it already has a computed GOTO.
... which brings to mind "named let" (from scheme) -- that'd be one
answer to the calls for continue... :]
Huh. I didn't realize that this was part of Scheme. I thought that
it was a _javascript_ innovation, where function expressions can be
named
Hi Florian,