while (true) { }

might be simplified to

while { }

There's a YouTrack for this one actually. I'll find a link.

thanks!

what about repeat{} ?

it sounds weird

while { }

feels wrong because "while" implies that the code is executed while some condition is true which is not the case for an infinite loop. (

for { }

suffers from a similar problem.)

logically, you should have a point. However given I'm used to read that in C, it feels natural

this thread is a mirror of the youtrack issue. it seems like the path of minimum resistance is probably something{...} however '...' as an operator is an infinite range semantic. does ... simply alias to Any?..POSITIVE_INFINITY ? will thaat be a follow-up stdlib request to try to reduce gap from maths to source code?

@stantronic If you find yourself using

break

and

continue

in a

while (true)

block, you should instead be looking at other, better-fitting patterns. Perhaps the condition that causes you to hit

break

should be in the parentheses instead of

true

, or perhaps you should be using

for

,

filter

,

any

, etc.