OT: for (;;) {} vs while (true) {}

[Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d]

On 11/24/2016 05:09 PM, Dennis Ritchie wrote:
> On Thursday, 24 November 2016 at 22:04:00 UTC, LiNbO3 wrote:
>> As you can see [1] the `while (true)` is lowered into `for (;true;)`
>> so it's all about what construct pleases you the most.
>>
>> [1]
>> https://github.com/dlang/dmd/blob/cd451ceae40d04f7371e46df1c955fd914f3085f/src/statementsem.d#L357
>>
>
> OK, thanks.
>
> The next question is:
> What principles guided when choosing between `for (;;) { ... }` and
> `while (true) { ... }` ?

Personal preference. Nothing more. Programmers have far better things to 
do that fret over the relative merits of two identical constructs that 
have no relative (de)merits over each other.