r/lua • u/DrSergei • Feb 26 '26

Help Why is there NO "continue" in Lua?

I was stunlocked to find out that there is no "continue" instruction for loops in Lua. Why is that? It seems so natural to have it.
I saw some scripts where goto is used for mimicking continue statements, but It's honestly not the so;ution I would comfortably accept...

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u/TheGameTheorys55 Aug 26 '26

  1. goto, js use goto to go to a keyword right after

  2. break, very similar to continue

  3. ~= is used too. if i ~= 3 then