Re: Support for goto and labels added
- From: David Given <dg@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: luajit@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2012 14:00:28 +0100
Mike Pall wrote:
[...]
> As has been pointed out on the Lua mailing list: goto is *not* a
> substitute for regular loops and control-flow constructs. But it's
> useful to implement "continue", to break out of deep loop nestings,
> to implement state machines or simulators and when using Lua code
> as a target language for cross-language translators.
Excellent news!
(/me adds writing a Lua backend for his Java compiler to the to-do list...)
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