Re: C23 thoughts and opinions

Kaz Kylheku <643-408-1753@kylheku.com> writes:
 

On 2024-06-02, Lew Pitcher <lew.pitcher@digitalfreehold.ca> wrote:
>

I've always considered
   for (;;)
preferable over
   while (1)

>
Of course it is preferable.  The idiom constitutes the language's direct
support for unconditional looping, not requiring that to be requested by
an extraneous always-true expression.
>
Using while (1) or while (true) is like i = i + 1 instead
of ++i, or while (*dst++ = *src++); instead of strcpy.  [...]

 Using for (;;) for an infinite loop is an abomination.  Anyone
who advocates following that rule is an instrument of Satan.