Re: what does two semicolns ';;' do

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Greetings, Ivan Sanchez Ortega.

Which means, that's an infinite loop (until it's broken by calling the
break() construct inside the loop)

Ridiculous usage of the language construct...
Why not use

while(true){ ... }

then?

Pest or cholera. You also have to use a break to leave the while loop.
IMHO infinite loops are always ugly and bad coding style, regardless of
how you code them.

Micha
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