E0139: missing condition for while statement

A while statement has a condition which determines whether the body will execute or not. It is an error to omit a while statement's condition:

let name = '';
while {
  name = prompt('What is your name?');
}

async function downloadURLWithRetries(url) {
  while {
    try {
      return await downloadURL(url);
    } catch {
      // Loop and try again.
    }
  }
}

To fix this error, write the condition with parentheses after the if keyword:

let name = '';
while (name === '') {
  name = prompt('What is your name?');
}

Alternatively, to write an infinite loop, write for (;;) instead of while:

async function downloadURLWithRetries(url) {
  for (;;) {
    try {
      return await downloadURL(url);
    } catch {
      // Loop and try again.
    }
  }
}

Introduced in quick-lint-js version 0.2.0.

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