On Tuesday, April 8, 2014 7:17:18 PM UTC-4, Cameron McBride wrote:
I've long enjoyed ruby's `loop` keyword for exactly this type of use.
Too bad Julia doesn't have (full featured) macros so you could write loop
yourself and just use it without first convincing a whole lot of people
it's a
You can do `@loop begin ... end` – of course, that's not any shorter than
`while true ... end`.
On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 7:31 PM, David Moon dave_m...@alum.mit.edu wrote:
On Tuesday, April 8, 2014 7:17:18 PM UTC-4, Cameron McBride wrote:
I've long enjoyed ruby's `loop` keyword for exactly this
Although not too frequent, this would be a good FAQ entry.
Cheers, Kevin
On Tuesday, April 8, 2014, Pierre-Yves Gérardy pyg...@gmail.com wrote:
This does the trick:
while true
# ...
condition || break
end
On Tuesday, April 8, 2014 5:26:00 AM UTC+2, Freddy Chua wrote:
as
If while true loops are idiomatic, could we perhaps make the true optional?
On Tuesday, 8 April 2014 18:57:53 UTC+1, Stefan Karpinski wrote:
Good idea. For what it's worth, these days I would be perfectly happy to
only program with while true loops and explicit breaks.
On Apr 8, 2014, at
Eh, doesn't seem that hard to write `while true` and `while` by itself is
kind of confusing. I also don't necessarily think this is how everyone
should write loops, but I increasingly find myself starting out by writing
`while true` and then putting conditions where they are needed as I go.
Then
I've long enjoyed ruby's `loop` keyword for exactly this type of use.
Cameron
On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 4:28 PM, Stefan Karpinski ste...@karpinski.orgwrote:
Eh, doesn't seem that hard to write `while true` and `while` by itself is
kind of confusing. I also don't necessarily think this is how
as stated in question..
That is correct.
On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 11:26 PM, Freddy Chua freddy...@gmail.com wrote:
as stated in question..
