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for i in 1:m do

  // main loop body; may contain any number of statements:

  while A[i] != x;  // premature loop termination if x is found   

exitwhile           // do this on premature loop termination, i.e. "found"
  B[i]++; 

exitfor             // do this if loop reaches end of (valid) A[], i.e. "not found"
  A[i] := x;
  B[i] := 1;
  m = i;            // new search limit for subsequent x searches

endfor

honey the codewitch wrote:

for i := 1 step 1 until m do.
if A[i] = x then go to found fi;
not found: i := re+l; m := i;
A[i] := x; B[i] := 0;
found: B[i] := B[i]+I;

for i := 1 step 1 until m do.
   if A[i] = x then go to found fi;
not found: i := m+1; m := i;
A[i] := x; B[i] := 0;
found: B[i] := B[i]+1;

for (;;)
{
    Console.WriteLine("this, and while(true) loops, are an abomination ... as evil as using goto");

    goto get_me_out_of_here;
}

get_me_out_of_here:

#define ever (;;)

for ever {...}

while (true)
{
  if (isPolitican) break;
}

#define ever (;;)

for ever { ....}

if (realExitCondition)
    break;

James Curran wrote:

But, all of this ignores one basic truth of code: ALL LOOPS END!

Quote:

Because no device with embedded code will last forever. So you could include some sort of "while (this device is not being decomposed into its constituents for recycling purposes) {...}". The question is how the device can perform this test, and take the proper actions to terminate the loop.

while (!shutting_down()) {}