There’s nothing special about a generic for loop (at least in C-like languages). There’s no reason you couldn’t do something like for (i = 0; true; i++) to make it infinite. Some languages even support an infinite list generator syntax like for i in [0..] (e.g. it lazily generates 0, then 1, then 2, etc. on each iteration) so you can use a for-each style loop to iterate infinitely.
Now, whether or not you should do such things is another question entirely. I won’t pretend there aren’t any instances where it’s useful, but most of the time you’re better off with a different structure.
I disagree. It’s a while loop, because a for-loop is finite, so you can’t count to infinity with it.
there is no reason for a (non-foreach) for loop to be any more or less finite than a while loop.
for (a; b; c) { d; }is just syntactic sugar for
{ a; while (b) { d; c; } }in most or all languages with c-like syntax.
for (i=0; true; i++)There’s nothing special about a generic for loop (at least in C-like languages). There’s no reason you couldn’t do something like
for (i = 0; true; i++)to make it infinite. Some languages even support an infinite list generator syntax likefor i in [0..](e.g. it lazily generates 0, then 1, then 2, etc. on each iteration) so you can use a for-each style loop to iterate infinitely.Now, whether or not you should do such things is another question entirely. I won’t pretend there aren’t any instances where it’s useful, but most of the time you’re better off with a different structure.
I wanna see how you get a while loop to actually go to infinity. I’ll wait…
on second thought, no I won’t.