On 18/12/13 00:40, Peter Cawley wrote: [...] > The following three excepts from the 5.2 reference manual would seem > to make the particular example valid: > > 1. A goto may jump to any visible label as long as it does not enter > into the scope of a local variable. > 2. The scope of a local variable begins at the first statement after > its declaration and lasts until the last non-void statement of the > innermost block that includes the declaration. > 3. Labels and empty statements are called void statements, as they > perform no actions. Ouch. Yes, that does make a certain extremely non-intuitive sense. Which implies that when LuaJIT is in non-5.2-compatibility-mode is has stricter specced goto than Lua 5.2 (which is a good thing). -- ┌─── ｄｇ＠ｃｏｗｌａｒｋ．ｃｏｍ ───── http://www.cowlark.com ───── │ "There does not now, nor will there ever, exist a programming │ language in which it is the least bit hard to write bad programs." --- │ Flon's Axiom
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