All Loops Are a Code Smell

The death of for, while, and their ilk.

Image by Christopher Kuszajewski from Pixabay

Loops are a fundamental part of programming. We need to do something for each item in a list. We need to read input until input is exhausted. We need to put n number of boxes on the screen. But every time I see a loop being added to code in a PR, my eyebrows go up. Now I have to examine the code closely to ensure the loop will always terminate…