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From: David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no>
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Subject: Re: C23 thoughts and opinions
Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2024 10:47:58 +0200
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On 04/06/2024 04:20, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> On Mon, 3 Jun 2024 23:43:00 +0100, bart wrote:
> 
>> All that suggest sto me is that the language *needs* an explicit endless
>> loop!
> 
> I agree. Also it is common for a loop to have multiple exits, and I don’t
> like treating one of them as a special “termination condition” above the
> others, so I like to use “break” for all of them.
> 
> The “for” form not only caters for this, it allows handy initialization of
> local variables that keep their value between loop iterations. E.g.
> 
>      for (unsigned int i = length_of(array);;)
>        {
>          if (i == 0)
>            {
>              ... not found ...
>              break;
>            } /*if*/
>          --i;
>          if (... array[i] matches what I want ...)
>            {
>              .. found ...
>              break;
>            } /*if*/
>        } /*for*/

Now we know Keith was right that people are joking!