Why does Lua have no “continue” statement?

Question

I have been dealing a lot with Lua in the past few months, and I really like most of the features but I\'m still missing something among those:

• Why is there no

Answer 1

The first part is answered in the FAQ as slain pointed out.

As for a workaround, you can wrap the body of the loop in a function and return early from that, e.g.

-- Print the odd numbers from 1 to 99
for a = 1, 99 do
  (function()
    if a % 2 == 0 then
      return
    end
    print(a)
  end)()
end

Or if you want both break and continue functionality, have the local function perform the test, e.g.

local a = 1
while (function()
  if a > 99 then
    return false; -- break
  end
  if a % 2 == 0 then
    return true; -- continue
  end
  print(a)
  return true; -- continue
end)() do
  a = a + 1
end