Re: while (1) vs. for ( ;; )

Richard Heathfield <invalid@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Tim Rentsch said:
>
>[snip]
>
> > My first reaction was that he's meaning to say that loops
> > that look infinite (but aren't) are bad,
>
> All else being equal, yes...
>
>
> > and the code should
> > be reworked so that the loop control expression is really
> > what controls the loop body.
>
> ...and yes.
>
> (This reply is purely for clarification of my earlier intent - I did read
> the rest of your article, and I accept that our viewpoints differ.)

Are they really different? What I said was that some loops
are better with the exit condition in the loop body rather
than the control expression; such loops don't occur
commonly. Do you really mean to say that _no_ loop, at any
time under any conditions, should be written with a constant
control expression? Not counting of course examples like
the microwave oven driver loop, which you explained already.
.

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