Question

I am looking at somebody else’s code and I found this piece of code:

for (;;) {

I’m not a Java expert; what is this line of code doing?

At first, I thought it would be creating an infinite loop, but in the very SAME class this programmer uses

while(true)

Which (correct me if I’m wrong) IS an infinite loop. Are these two identical? Why would somebody change their method to repeat the same process?

Any insight would help,

Thanks!

Answer 1

Remember the three clauses of the for() are [1] initialization [2] termination and [3] increment. Since the termination clause is empty the loop never terminates. This is directly taken from C syntax.