Thread: Infinite While Loops Question

I am learning C++ and I was under the impression if you were to do an infinite while loop to do

Code:

int counter=0

while(1)
{
counter++;
if(counter>10)
{
break;
}
}

However, my book says to use while(true)...I did learn the while(1) method in C programming, is "true" a new feature since it is apart of c++? Which should I use to fit among the norm?

true is the same as 1, and false is 0,

but for infinnite loops id jsut do

Code:

for( ; ; )
{
     //do stuff here
     if(/*something*/)
     {
            break;
     }
}

>> true is the same as 1, and false is 0,

You could see it like that, but I'd advise you not to.

Don't think of true and false as being 1 and 0. Try to think of true and false as absolute values.

In C, a negative number would also equate to true in a loop condition, eg.

Code:

while (-3)
{
    //...
}

So true could be a negative or a positive, but not zero. Java is strict about this, in that a loop condition must equate to either true or false.

No biggy, I was just trying to explain the reason for having the value true and false in a language.

A strongly typed language would enforce a boolean value as a loop condition rather than allowing any value.

I know you didn't mean that true is only 1, I just did want 'hern' to think of it like that.