[chuck-dev] for loop, empty conditional statement, possible fix

[Kassen]

Hi Szilveszter,
>
>
> I also checked out the source code and made a change which made this loop
> work:
> at chuck_dev\v2\chuck_type.cpp:873:
>
> I enclosed the switch() block in a conditional:
>
> if (stmt->c2) { ... }
>
> Now it seems to work.
>
>
First; great job on fixing this crash, that's the spirit!

I do have a question though. It seems that you are implying here that a
empty condition now evaluates to true (or at least not false). Assuming we
adopt this fix; would this now be true in the general case, or just for
"for" loops? Are there precedents on empty conditions evaluating to true?
Just curious; crash prevention is the main thing here, I don't see much
practical use in empty "for" loops anyway, because "while(1)" is just as one
character more than "for(;;)" and a lot more readable.

Yours,
Kas.
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