Best refactoring for the dreaded While (True) loop

Question

If, like me, you shiver at the site of a While (True) loop, then you too must have thought long and hard about the best way to refactor it away. I\'ve seen several different im

Answer 1

Replace True with the condition you were going to use to break out of the loop.

In the case of a service or background thread, you might use:

volatile bool m_shutdown = false;
void Run()
{
    while (!m_shutdown)
    { ... }
}