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Re: new to While statements

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Date Thu, 8 Aug 2013 01:31:09 +0000 (UTC)
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Vito De Tullio wrote:

> Dan Sommers wrote:
>
>>>>         while "asking for reponse":
>>> 
>>>>         while "adventuring":
>>> 
>>> that's a funny way to say `while True:`...
>> 
>> Funny, perhaps, the first time you see it, but way more informative than
>> the other way to the next one who comes along and reads it.
>
> While I understand that it's syntactically and semantically correct, my nose 
> still doesn't like it.
>

Neither does mine.  There's no need for a trick here.   "while True"
reads better, and a comment (on the same line, preferably) can explain
what the loop is for.


-- 
DaveA

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new to While statements krismesenbrink@gmail.com - 2013-08-06 20:38 -0700
  Re: new to While statements snakeinmyboot <mikelhamer@gmail.com> - 2013-08-06 21:09 -0700
    Re: new to While statements krismesenbrink@gmail.com - 2013-08-06 21:13 -0700
  Re: new to While statements snakeinmyboot <mikelhamer@gmail.com> - 2013-08-06 21:17 -0700
  Re: new to While statements Joshua Landau <joshua@landau.ws> - 2013-08-07 05:37 +0100
  Re: new to While statements Vito De Tullio <vito.detullio@gmail.com> - 2013-08-07 07:20 +0200
  Re: new to While statements Dan Sommers <dan@tombstonezero.net> - 2013-08-07 05:35 +0000
    Re: new to While statements snakeinmyboot <mikelhamer@gmail.com> - 2013-08-06 22:42 -0700
      Re: new to While statements Dan Sommers <dan@tombstonezero.net> - 2013-08-07 05:52 +0000
        Re: new to While statements krismesenbrink@gmail.com - 2013-08-06 23:26 -0700
    Re: new to While statements Vito De Tullio <vito.detullio@gmail.com> - 2013-08-07 20:05 +0200
    Re: new to While statements Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2013-08-08 01:31 +0000
  Re: new to While statements Larry Hudson <orgnut@yahoo.com> - 2013-08-07 20:21 -0700

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