As with other rules like remove_interpolated_string and remove_compound_assignment, this would be useful for translating Luau into Lua 5.1 source code.
I implementated this myself a while ago in a different project. It converted the following:
for i = 1, 4 do
print("start", i)
if i % 2 == 0 then
print("two", i)
continue
elseif i % 3 == 0 then
print("three", i)
break
end
print("end", i)
end
into:
for i = 1, 4 do
local _continue_0 = false
repeat
print("start", i)
if i % 2 == 0 then
print("two", i)
_continue_0 = true
break
elseif i % 3 == 0 then
print("three", i)
break
end
print("end", i)
_continue_0 = true
until true
if not _continue_0 then
break
end
end
The repeat until true construct is used to execute a block of statements once where it can be broken out of using break.
As with other rules like
remove_interpolated_string
andremove_compound_assignment
, this would be useful for translating Luau into Lua 5.1 source code.I implementated this myself a while ago in a different project. It converted the following:
into:
The
repeat until true
construct is used to execute a block of statements once where it can be broken out of usingbreak
.