[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #45143] infinite FOR loop limits fail

[Rik]

Follow-up Comment #11, bug #45143 (project octave):

I added a new warning ID, "Octave:infinite-loop", in case programmers
intentionally want to use this construct (it is valid, and it would be
annoying to use it and every warning for every m-file invocation).  See
changeset https://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/rev/a9f1a922367b.

In the documentation, I made the description general to any infinite loop, not
just


for i = 1:Inf


I haven't looked at it, but it is my hope that the interpreter could detect a
static while loop or until loop condition as well and also call
warning_with_id().  For example,


while (1)


Even better would be detecting a static expression such as 


while (true == true)


but most people intending to create an infinite loop will probably use the the
simple constructs outlined above.


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