Re: I'd give my right arm for a continue statement

[dcharno <dcharno@...>]

On 01/23/2011 12:00 AM, David Manura wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 10:06 PM, dcharno<dcharno@comcast.net>  wrote:
> > I found it interesting that continue is used in 55 places in Lua 5.1.4 ;)
>
> IIRC, at least some of those uses of continue simulate tail-calls
> (which Lua implements but C does not).  When I ported the string
> library to Lua [1], the `continue` statements there were more
> appropriately re-expressed in Lua as tail calls.
>
> [1] http://lua-users.org/wiki/StringLibraryInLua

Before the hate mate starts rolling in, I'll say I meant it partially as 
a joke and partially as a way of saying continue is a tool that's useful 
in some cases.  I'm sure all of the continue statements could be removed 
from any specific source tree.