Is it bad to have a for loop without an increment or decrement?

Question

Sometimes I need to write a loop in C/C++ where there is an initialization followed by a condition.

I like how this looks,

for (int i = 0, j = 0; i == 0 && j == 0;) {
    // condition fails at some point
}

more than this.

int i = 0, j = 0;
while (i == 0 && j == 0) {
    // condition fails at some point
}

Granted that this is personal code so noone can judge me. Will the compiler make it so that they are the same thing?

Answer 1

Use the for loop if you don't need the variables i and j after the loop.

Use the while loop if you need the variables i and j after the loop.