Questions tagged [while-loop]
Use for questions about a segment of code that repeatedly, at the start of each loop, checks some condition and exits if it is false.
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What is the rationale behind the WebAssembly `if` statements behaving like `block` when it comes to breaking (`br`), rather than being transparent?
So, WebAssembly has two types of blocks of code, block and loop. When you break with br or <...
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How can the language or tooling notify the user of infinite loops?
I'm trying to teach a friend to code in Python. I've noticed that whenever they write a while loop with an integer increment, such as the one shown below:
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Parsing `do`-`while`, `while`-`do`-`end` and `do`-`end`
Consider the Lua programming language, which has the following constructs involving the keywords do and end:
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What are the advantages of providing an until loop construct?
An until loop construct until (x) can almost always be achieved with a while loop while (!x). What's a possible reasoning behind ...
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What are the pros and cons of having do ... while loops?
One somewhat rarely used, but still occasionally handy, feature of many programming languages is do ... while loops:
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