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The infamous "if loop" actually exists (discuss.tchncs.de)
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[–] brian@programming.dev 8 points 5 days ago (1 children)

found the following in our codebase the other day.

while(booleanFlag)
    return;

thhere wasn't more in the loop body, that was it. the loop conditional does exist and it can hurt you.

[–] rikudou@lemmings.world 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Can it hurt you, though? My guess would be every sane compiler and interpreter optimizes this.

[–] brian@programming.dev 3 points 4 days ago

the codebase readability certainly suffers, and this isn't the only case of shenanigans like this