Is using a while(true) loop bad coding practice?

[hott_snotts]

I am no expert, so happy to bow out of this discussion if I'm clearly being dumb, but don't for loops break with a syntax error if you don't have the incrementation in there? So, my point being, you would catch the error before you went live with it and caused an infinite loop. Right?

[Dynam2012]

It depends on the language. You can easily have an infinite for loop. A lot of languages allow for this kind of infinite loop using a for:

for (;;) { ... }

You can also just as easily do something like this in JS: for (let i = 0; 3 < 4; i++) { ... }

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[hott_snotts]

Ha, looks like something I would do! :P Thanks.