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On 6/4/2024 1:36 AM, David Brown wrote:
[...]
> Personally, I'm in the "while (true) { ... }" camp.  To me, "for (;;)" 
> looks like a weird smiley, and I do not fall for any appeals to Deniis 
> Ritchie's authority.

Writing for (;;) is what I personally tend to write, however if a team 
does not like that, well, I will use while (true), or whatever... I 
think I tend to write for (;;) because I can adapt it for something like:

for (unsigned long long i = 0; ; ++i)
{
     //...
}

So, I can get a running counter (i) or something... Oh well.

> 
> 
> But we are missing another option:
> 
> void mainloop() {
>      // do something
>      mainloop();
> }
> 
> That should be fine with an optimising compiler.
> 
> 

Still worry about run away recursion...