On Sat, 10 Oct 2009 20:15:21 +0000, kj wrote: > I use "while True"-loops often, and intend to continue doing this "while > True", but I'm curious to know: how widespread is the injunction against > such loops? Has it reached the status of "best practice"?
Such an injunction probably made more sense back in the days of single- tasking computers. Back in ancient days when dinosaurs walked the Earth, and I was programming in THINK Pascal on Apple Macintosh System 6, I'd go into nervous palpitations writing the equivalent of "while True" because if I got it wrong, I'd lock up the machine and need to hit the power button. (At least if I was still testing in the THINK Pascal IDE, and had the whole range of debugging options turned on, I could interrupt it.) These days, I must admit I still have a tiny little shiver whenever I write "while True", but that's entirely irrational and I pay no attention to it. -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list