For Loop Infinite

[232showtime]

Good day,

is it possible to make a For Loop infinite,

ho do i make a for loop infinite??? using the script below

For $i = 0 To 10
Msgbox(64, "Succes", $i)
Next

 

Edited August 8, 2016 by 232showtime

[Melba23]

232showtime,

Use a While...WEnd loop - but you will need to have some way of exiting it at some point.

M23

[Danyfirex]

Hello. As Melba says Correct way is using While. But a for can be infinite this way.

 

For $i = 0 To 1
Msgbox(64, "Succes", $i)
$i-=1
Next

Saludos

[232showtime]

@Melba23

noted...

@Danyfirex

wow this is really something. thanks for sharing.

[jchd]

BTW you can also run an unbounded loop with Do..Until

[czardas]

@jchd There's only one type of loop right?

Do
Until False

Warning: Loop will run infinitely. Add a sleep value, or some other code, within the loop to prevent cpu overheating.

Edited August 8, 2016 by czardas

[jchd]

Yes and since a so-called "infinite loop" has no exit condition, all forms are equivalent: a linear code block terminated by a backward branch. Note that the term infinite has zero practical meaning in computer science, since noone can reasonably expect anything being infinite in the real world. Abstract mathematical objects actually infinite aren't defined by means of an infinite loop.

It remains that Do..Until seems to be underused in code regularly posted, compared to While..Wend, without good reason in many situations. There is no theoretic grounds to infer that more than half of useful algorithms need to check exit condition at inner code block entry (While) or exit (Until).

[Gianni]

one more way is setting Step = 0 (just for fun)

Local $end

For $i = 0 To 0 Step 0
    ConsoleWrite($i & @CRLF)
    ; .....
    $end += 1
    If $end = 10 Then $i = 1 ; to exit set $i > of the To value
Next

 

[czardas]

1 hour ago, jchd said:

It remains that Do..Until seems to be underused in code regularly posted

I agree with you.

I was inferring that all loops in programming do pretty much the same thing: in so much as they repeat until a condition is met, or not. The comment was a follow up on your earlier post and I thought it worth a mention. Implementation may vary of course. I imagine loops which increment an iteration count ought theoretically be slower. It stands to reason, although in the real world things might not be so straight forward.

[jchd]

My remark was more towards whether preconditions or postconditions dominate in loop constructs. Given a significant sample of distinct general-purpose algorithms, the ratio is close to 1/2, while in common code people tend to code While <cond> ... Wend with <cond> always true at entry.

[czardas]

I meant to answer, but fell asleep. I was thinking it might be a good idea to get rid of the condition altogether and just simply have the loop. Terms like 'While', 'For' and 'Until' are rather specific. I'm speaking more generally in terms of language design - not necessarily AutoIt.

Edited August 9, 2016 by czardas