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I disagree. It's a while loop, because a for-loop is finite, so you can't count to infinity with it.
There's nothing special about a generic for loop (at least in C-like languages). There's no reason you couldn't do something like
for (i = 0; true; i++)to make it infinite. Some languages even support an infinite list generator syntax likefor i in [0..](e.g. it lazily generates 0, then 1, then 2, etc. on each iteration) so you can use a for-each style loop to iterate infinitely.Now, whether or not you should do such things is another question entirely. I won't pretend there aren't any instances where it's useful, but most of the time you're better off with a different structure.