while true: !!!

[Erik Max Francis]

Greg Jorgensen wrote:

> The C/C++ loop idioms are:
> 
>   for (; ;) { ... }
> 
> and less common:
> 
>   while (1) { ... }

Not to start another pointless argument, I've seen while (1) [or while
(true) in C++] to be a much more common construct than for (;;).  Both
work perfectly well, of course.

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