Forgo the usage of while loops

While loops have grown to become a staple ingredient in our codes. We use it for a lot of purposes.

Some Common Uses Of While Loops

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While-true loop
Basically anything that requires "Execute this code as long as this is true or this is not true."

It has a lot of uses.

But, we also have the for loop.

It does the exact same thing.

Allow me to demonstrate.

while(true){
  std::cout << "Hello World!" << std::endl;
}

Output:

Hello World!
Hello World!
Hello World!
...

But this code does the exact same thing with a for loop.

for(;;){
  std::cout << "Hello World!" << std::endl;
}

But what about while loops that don't use the while-true statement?

while(condition){
  do something;
}

for(;condition;){
  do something;
}

See? There is absolutely no reason to use while loops.

I urge you all to stop using this redundant function and instead switch to a much simpler style of coding that only has one loop, the for loop that will always be dominant!

FOR LOOPS FOREVER!

Unless you use Python. Then you suck you are uncultured you should stop using python while loops are useful.

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no
that is completely false

which one looks better?

bool run = true;

while (run) {
  run = false;
}

for(;;) {
  if (!run) break;
  run = false;
}

also, for loops literally are while loops in the backend (meaning they are just syntactic sugar)

@Coder100 smh

for(;run;){
  run = false;
}

That is how to properly replace while loops with for loops. ~~Also who really cares about code looking pretty? If it works it works~~ sorry competitive programmer here, and this is somewhat of a joke post.

no, that isn't it, for loops desugar to

int i = 0;

while (i < 5) {
  i++;
  // ... code ...
}

@FlaminHotValdez

@Coder100 yes I know, this is somewhat of a joke post, its rly just your opinion.

well i just made one too bruhh @FlaminHotValdez

https://repl.it/talk/learn/How-to-fix-ANY-bug-works-2021/116336 @FlaminHotValdez