Re: [LUAU] Re: Python (Was Re: Hosef)

2005-11-28 Thread Jim Thompson
Clifton Royston wrote: On Fri, Nov 25, 2005 at 11:28:43AM -1000, Jimen Ching wrote: On Wed, 23 Nov 2005, Tim Newsham wrote: I always found "continue" to be a lot more explicit in situations like this: while(*s++ = *t++) continue; the empty semi-colon being the least att

Re: [LUAU] Re: Python (Was Re: Hosef)

2005-11-28 Thread Jimen Ching
On Mon, 28 Nov 2005, Clifton Royston wrote: > Knowing the basic syntax of each language does not initially give you >this. True. Learning the syntax of a language doesn't help with the semantics of a language. > My goal for a language-oriented group would be to see it help new >programmers rap

Re: [LUAU] Re: Python (Was Re: Hosef)

2005-11-28 Thread Clifton Royston
On Fri, Nov 25, 2005 at 11:28:43AM -1000, Jimen Ching wrote: > On Wed, 23 Nov 2005, Tim Newsham wrote: > >I always found "continue" to be a lot more explicit in situations > >like this: > > > > while(*s++ = *t++) > > continue; > > > >the empty semi-colon being the least attractive alt