That’s a pretty crazy use of Lua if I may say so.
It is possible to craft continue-like logic in lua, however, with (out of all things) goto statements.
For example, I have the following code in my dotfiles:
for _, lang in pairs(loopvar) do
if condition then
goto continue
end
<do whatever the loop actually does>
::continue::
end
Of course the continue could be called anything.
Really felt uncomfortable resorting to this way but it is possible :-)