<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 10 May 2016, at 08:27, Nicholas Maccharoli via swift-evolution <<a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org" class="">swift-evolution@swift.org</a>> wrote:</div><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;color:rgb(39,78,19)"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;color:rgb(39,78,19)">But I think it might be best to change the syntax / behaviour of `repeat` to loop </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;color:rgb(39,78,19)">indefinitely if no trailing while clause is present:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;color:rgb(39,78,19)"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;color:rgb(39,78,19)"> repeat {</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;color:rgb(39,78,19)"> if ... { break }</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;color:rgb(39,78,19)"> //...</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;color:rgb(39,78,19)"> }</div></div></div></blockquote><br class=""></div><div>-1 from me on both counts; the thing I like about while true is that it’s explicit about what I meant, whereas a repeat block with no while clause is indistinguishable from me forgetting to include one, or me wanting an infinite loop.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>An alternative could be to add a new “forever” keyword or something similar, replacing while true wherever applicable, but personally I don’t think it’s that important.</div></body></html>