while(true) ???

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1

im confused. I kow how a while loop works and what it does but im stumped on this line while(true)… while what is true??? i dont get it. here is the code that is in question copied from the fps tutorial ai sript.

function Start () {
	// Auto setup player as target through tags
	if (target == null && GameObject.FindWithTag("Player"))
		target = GameObject.FindWithTag("Player").transform;
		
		animation["idle"].wrapMode = WrapMode.Loop;

	Patrol();
}

function Patrol () {
	var curWayPoint = AutoWayPoint.FindClosest(transform.position);
	while (true) {
		var waypointPosition = curWayPoint.transform.position;
		// Are we close to a waypoint? -> pick the next one!
		if (Vector3.Distance(waypointPosition, transform.position) < pickNextWaypointDistance)
			curWayPoint = PickNextWaypoint (curWayPoint);

		// Attack the player and wait until
		// - player is killed
		// - player is out of sight		
		if (CanSeeTarget ())
			yield StartCoroutine("AttackPlayer");
		
		// Move towards our target
		MoveTowards(waypointPosition);
		
		
		yield;
	}
}

so what is going on here can someone please explain.

3

It means ‘do this loop forever’ which, unless there were yields there (or early returns), would hang a program. In this case, it means this script will execute those commands until the game stops or the object it’s on is destroyed or disabled.

2

A while loop continues to loop as long as the condition is true. Since true is always true, while (true) is an infinite loop.