Never ending For

[NeedHelp]

What is the purpose of a never ending FOR loop? I can't think of any reason why I would use it - maybe as a virus to use up resources?

[TcM]

Yeah as a virus perhaps? just to make the Pc crash or freeze?

[Jordan]

You could use it in a service that needs to always run a loop to check for something, given you didn't have a timer.

[brackett]

Usually, you'd use a while loop for a never ending loop (like for a service). I can't think of any reasonable use for a never ending for loop. Since for loops check a condition and perform an increment (or, in C languages, perform another action) it'd be kind of wasteful to use it in place of a while (true).

[NeedHelp]

Hmm, so I guess there really is no use for it...

[Blaze]

No, there are reasons to use it listed above but they are not very practical.

[Ronin]

You could also use it in a command line project to always run the main menu loop. That is what we used in class anyway.

[Kaabi]

The first thing that came to my mind was a virus. But those other uses are better.