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Re: true loop

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On 09/13/12 10:04 AM, pete wrote:
> Nick Keighley wrote:
>>
>> On Sep 12, 12:12 am, pete<pfil...@mindspring.com>  wrote:
>>> bob wrote:
>>>
>>>> Is it considered bad practice to do something like this?
>>>
>>>> while (true)
>>>> {
>>>> ...
>>>> }
>>>
>>> Th C compiler which I use,
>>> issues a warning for that.
>>>
>>> In C,
>>>      for(;;)
>>> is for writing that kind of loop.
>>
>> in what sense is it "for writing that kind of loop"?
>
> In the sense that it is only only loop style,
> which is explicitly described by the guy who invented it,
> as being an "'infinite' loop", in both editions of K&R.
>
> It's also the loop style
> which is used for all of the examples of "infinite" loops,
> in the C standard.

Possibly because C started life without a boolean type.  I doubt you 
would see the for idiom used very often in other languages.

-- 
Ian Collins

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true loop bob <bob@coolfone.comze.com> - 2012-09-11 10:52 -0700
  Re: true loop Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net> - 2012-09-11 11:17 -0700
  Re: true loop pete <pfiland@mindspring.com> - 2012-09-11 19:12 -0400
    Re: true loop Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2012-09-11 16:28 -0700
      Re: true loop pete <pfiland@mindspring.com> - 2012-09-11 22:23 -0400
      Re: true loop Geoff <geoff@invalid.invalid> - 2012-09-11 19:33 -0700
        Re: true loop Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2012-09-11 19:53 -0700
        Re: true loop Nick Keighley <nick_keighley_nospam@hotmail.com> - 2012-09-12 02:23 -0700
      Re: true loop "Chris Uppal" <chris.uppal@metagnostic.REMOVE-THIS.org> - 2012-09-15 10:56 +0100
    Re: true loop Nick Keighley <nick_keighley_nospam@hotmail.com> - 2012-09-12 02:21 -0700
      Re: true loop pete <pfiland@mindspring.com> - 2012-09-12 18:04 -0400
        Re: true loop Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2012-09-13 10:22 +1200
          Re: true loop Geoff <geoff@invalid.invalid> - 2012-09-12 19:06 -0700
  Re: true loop Mok-Kong Shen <mok-kong.shen@t-online.de> - 2012-09-13 16:27 +0200
    Re: true loop Nick Keighley <nick_keighley_nospam@hotmail.com> - 2012-09-19 07:04 -0700
      Re: true loop Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2012-09-19 07:30 -0700

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