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

[Claude via Digitalmars-d]

On Friday, 25 November 2016 at 11:10:44 UTC, Timon Gehr wrote:
> On 25.11.2016 11:33, Claude wrote:
>> ...
>>
>> Between "for(;;)", "while(true)" and "do while(true)", I would 
>> use the
>> "while (true) { }" for pure readability and semantic reasons.
>> ...
>
> What semantic reasons?

In the general sense:

- While true (is always true), I loop.

Is more meaningful and conceptually easy then the empty for 
statement :

- For "empty initialization statement" until "I don't know (so 
forever by default)" and "not iterating", I loop.

>> I reckon "for(;;)" form is used for debug reasons (so you can 
>> easily
>> insert conditions to transform an infinite loop into a finite 
>> one).
>
> You can just as easily edit the while condition. I use it 
> because "unconditional loop" is less silly than "loop until 
> true is false".

I was just trying to explain why one would use for(;;) instead of 
while(true), you've got only one line to edit.

It's in same vein as using:

if (cond)
{

}