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comex on Nov 13, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: LuaJit 2.0 is out

I'd like to use Lua, partly to take advantage of LuaJIT and partly because it's an interesting language, but it drives me crazy that it lacks things like 'continue' and '+='. Maybe I should use MoonScript, but that completely discards Lua's aesthetics, which is hardly better.

catwell on Nov 14, 2012 | [–]

Lua 5.2 added "goto", which basically solves the lack of "continue". LuaJIT supports it too.

pheon on Nov 13, 2012 | | [–]

modify the luajit frontend. Added continue and != and some other weirder syntactic sugar, was only a half dozzen lines of code.

fuzzythinker on Nov 13, 2012 | [–]

moonscript to the rescue! http://moonscript.org/reference/#update_assignment

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