From: Michael Campbell <michael_s_campbell@...>
Date: 2002-09-11T01:43:26+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby aesthetics

> On a vaguely related note, i was working on a language for a while
> with a 
> friend of mine.  My favorite contribution to the language was a
> keyword i 
> haven't seen elsewhere... "forever", to imply an infinite loop.  So
> to 
> create an infinite loop, you would write
> 
> forever { ... }
> 
> rather than
> 
> while(true) { ... }


I've seen something LIKE this years ago in c:

#define EVER ;;;    


then, for(EVER) { ... }





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