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

[Dennis Ritchie via Digitalmars-d]

On Friday, 25 November 2016 at 11:20:24 UTC, Jonathan M Davis 
wrote:
> Probably the complete lack of a condition to test in for(;;). I 
> confess that I was shocked when I found out that it was legal 
> to have a for loop without a condition. That seems like doing 
> while() or if(), which makes no sense. So, I never use for(;;) 
> and wish that it didn't exist, but it does, and some folks use 
> it. So, I have to live with the possiblity of dealing with it 
> when dealing with code written by other people. But I won't 
> ever use it.

IMO, it is very convenient for system programming guru. It is 
believed that it came from the K&R.

For example, this option is definitely very convenient to use:
https://github.com/dlang/phobos/blob/master/std/algorithm/comparison.d#L591