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On 10/02/2021 11:12 PM, Clutterfreak wrote:
>
> There's not a repetition that a do/while or a while loop can perform
> that cannot be performed by a for loop as efficiently and as clearly.
> I've not, in my life, used any loop that had a "while" in it in any of
> the few languages that I programmed with. I only see the word "while" in
> programming books and hear it others mentioning it. So it is not needed.
> It is just another alternator doing what alternators do.

for (; test; ) {
    ....
    test = pigsFly();
}

static int pigsFly(void) {
     return 0;
}


Congratulations! You've created a while loop assuming test is true at 
the onset. When you only have a hammer...

Sooner or later it comes down to

JZ  get_me_out_of_here