True that

Arthur F Souza

A friend of mine wrote this little pearl a while ago. When I took the keyboard and wrote "true", we laughed for a good 5 mins. ...the next step was getting rid of the crazy infinite loop.

while(Convert.ToBoolean(1))
{
// do stuff
}

RobCroll

while(true) is one of my pet hates.

"You get that on the big jobs."

Firo Atrum Ventus

Why?

Oxfords English < Official CCC Players Dictionary Excuse me for my improper grammar and typos. It's because English is my primary language, not my first language. My first languages are C# and Java. VB, ASP, JS, PHP and SQL are my second language. Indonesian came as my third language. My fourth language? I'm still creating it, I'll let you know when it's done! :-D

RobCroll

while(true) isn't self-documenting

while(true)
{
.... lots of code
if(drunk) break;
drinkBeer();
.... lots more code
}

I much prefer

while(!drunk)
{
.... lots of code
drunk = true;
if(drunk) continue;

drinkBeer();
.... lots more code
}

Although its probably just the drink beer bit I really like :)

"You get that on the big jobs."

Firo Atrum Ventus

RobCroll wrote:

while(true) isn't self-documenting

Guess that's where comments comes in handy.

RobCroll wrote:

while(true)
{
.... lots of code
if(drunk) break;
drinkBeer();
.... lots more code
}

I much prefer

while(!drunk)
{
.... lots of code
drunk = true;
if(drunk) continue;

drinkBeer();
.... lots more code
}

I'm a fan of while(true) but the first is simply garbage, I never used it like that.

Oxfords English < Official CCC Players Dictionary Excuse me for my improper grammar and typos. It's because English is my primary language, not my first language. My first languages are C# and Java. VB, ASP, JS, PHP and SQL are my second language. Indonesian came as my third language. My fourth language? I'm still creating it, I'll let you know when it's done! :-D

RobCroll

You've got my interested now. So how do you use while(true) without coding garbage like break; (or return)?

"You get that on the big jobs."

Firo Atrum Ventus

No, no, don't misunderstand me. I use break;, continue;(above loop) or return; It's the context that I disagree with (ie. if you can make it simple with just a boolean, why do you need a while(true)?).

Oxfords English < Official CCC Players Dictionary Excuse me for my improper grammar and typos. It's because English is my primary language, not my first language. My first languages are C# and Java. VB, ASP, JS, PHP and SQL are my second language. Indonesian came as my third language. My fourth language? I'm still creating it, I'll let you know when it's done! :-D

ii_noname_ii

I actually have a LOT of While 1=1 in MS SQL... It's very cool, works great, and I just love to see the face of programmers when I show them with pride my nested while 1=1 loops in recursive stored procs... ;P