> On May 10, 2016, at 4:13 PM, Cole Campbell via swift-evolution
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I agree that repeat { } is ambiguous because you have to look to the end for
> a while clause to determine if it's infinite or not.
Right, this is the downside that I see with “repeat {}”.
> while true { } is preferable in that regard, but a compromise that I saw
> mentioned is:
>
> repeat forever { }
This would require taking “forever” as a keyword if we supported “repeat N {",
something we wouldn’t want to do.
Another option is to make it a statement modifier, which wouldn’t require
taking it as a keyword (but also doesn’t read as well):
forever repeat { }
Personally, I don’t see this as a big enough improvement over “while true” to
be worth introducing complexity for.
-Chris
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