Scala while(true) type mismatch? Infinite loop in scala?

Question

Why following code

def doSomething() = \"Something\"

var availableRetries: Int = 10

def process(): String = {
  while (true) {
    availableRetries -= 1
    tr         


        

Answer 1

Based on senia, elbowich and dave's solutions I used following:

@annotation.tailrec
def retry[T](availableRetries: Int)(action: => T): T = {
  try {
    return action
  } catch {
    case e: Exception if (availableRetries > 0) => { }
  }
  retry(availableRetries - 1)(action)
}

Which can be then used as elbowich and dave's solutions:

retry(3) {
  // some code
}