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JavaScript

Posted by Pauline Hilborn
Pauline Hilborn
3,879 Points

When does the program know when to "break" when there's no "while" counter?

I am reading through this code that Dave types in:

while ( true ) { guess = prompt('I am thinking of a number between 1 and 10. What is it?'); guessCount += 1; if (parseInt(guess) === randomNumber) { correctGuess = true; break; } }

and I cannot understand WHEN the program knows to break since there is no "while (counter < 10)" statement. You can view the full code at about 3:30 min into the video.

1 Answer

wensheng yan
wensheng yan
7,285 Points

Hey, the program will break base on condition, when the number you input is equal random number, it will break. Or it will run infinite until you guess the correct number.

Pauline Hilborn
Pauline Hilborn
3,879 Points

Thank you. I don't understand why anyone would create an infinite loop like that.