On: LuaJit 2.0 is out

[comex]

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 → comex]

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

[pheon → comex]

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

[fuzzythinker → comex]

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