> In other languages at that time the for loop was written in terms of a range, ...

professoretc · on Oct 10, 2023

But `while` doesn't restrict the scope of the variable(s) to just the loop. I believe there was a proposal to add

    while(int i = 0; i < 100) { ... }

as a valid syntax to C++ (which would restrict the scope of i to the loop), as you can already do

    if(int i = f(); i > 0) { ... }

but it didn't go anywhere.

a_e_k · on Oct 10, 2023

I'd just use a for with an empty update clause for that:

    for (int i = 0; i < 100; ) { ... }