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From: Dave Angel <davea@davea.name>
Subject: Re: new to While statements
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