Write while loop equivalent in elixir

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@Zesky665

You’re right, I always forget that you can just leave a function empty and it won’t cause an error.

Specifically it returns the atom nil.

@Zesky665

Correct me if I’m wrong (It’s been a few years since my last comp sci course) but aren’t while loops in most languages just synaptic sugar for recursive functions. By which I mean that they compile down to the same code and aren’t functionally much different.

Depends on the back-end, if the back-end is, say LLVM, then it compiles to something that looks recursive but it bases it on blocks instead of function calls, similar concept though.