[sr-dev] syntax error in while condition

Andrei Pelinescu-Onciul andrei at iptel.org
Mon Jun 1 17:25:32 CEST 2009


On Jun 01, 2009 at 18:01, Juha Heinanen <jh at tutpro.com> wrote:
> i'm not down to 3 syntax errors from 600+.  here is one of them:
> 
>     while (1) {
> 
>  0(7054) WARNING: <core> [cfg.y:2898]: warning in config file, line 1838, column 12: constant value in while(...)
> 
> how do i write a while statement where condition is always true?

while(1), but you'll always get a warning on start-up.
If you want to get rid of the warning you could try
while(! defined $foobar), but it would have a minor performance impact.

Andrei



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