I am writing a script that I want to infinite loop. I have read over node 37048, and I have a question that is not answered there. I want it to truly be an infinite loop (i.e. I would like it to run indefinitely not just a really long time). Currently I am using a

 for (;;){...}

loop. The script runs for about 24 hours then terminates itself unexpectedly. The code does not have any "..or die" statements in the interest of not dying from the infinite loop once it is started. Does anyone know if Perl has some syntactic sugar that "invisibly" counts iterations even though a limit is not declared? Could this cause it to eventually die on a integer stack overflow? I thought this may be a possible cause of the code dying. If this is true, is it then a better option to use a while true loop? Thanks for any input and/or advice!

In reply to Infinite Loop Question by joeymac

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