The rap against "while True:" loops

[greg]

Mensanator wrote:

> while not done:
>     ...
>     if n==1: done = True
>     ...

Seems to me that 'while not done:' is no better than
'while True:', because in both cases you have to look
inside the loop to find out what the exit condition
is.

Using a more meaningful name for the flag can help,
but you can't teach someone that just by giving them
an overly simplified rules such as "never use
while True:". They'll probably just replace it with
'while not done:' and think they've improved things,
without ever really understanding the issue.

-- 
Greg