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# The Language
## Whitespace
MoonScript is a whitespace sensitive language. This means that
instead of using `do` and `end` (or `{` and `}`) to delimit sections of code we
use line-breaks and indentation.
This means that how you indent you code is important. Luckily MoonScript
doesn't care how you do it but it's important to be consistent.
An indent must be at least 1 space or 1 tab, but you can use as many as you
like. All the code snippets on this page will use two spaces.
> Should you happen to mix tabs and spaces, a tab is equivalent to 4 spaces. I
> shouldn't be telling you this though because you should never do it.
## Assignment
Assigning to an undeclared name will cause it to be declared as a new local
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```moon
i = 0
while i < 10
continue if i % 2 ==0
continue if i % 2 == 0
print i
```
`continue` can also be used with loop expressions to prevent that iteration
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# License (MIT)
Copyright (C) 2011 by Leaf Corcoran
Copyright (C) 2013 by Leaf Corcoran
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal