I've been going with this style for things like reading files (with retries) or any sort of loop that feels awkward. while (1) { int ret = ...; if (r

I've been going with this style for things like reading files (with retries) or any sort of loop that feels awkward. while (1) { int ret = ...; if (ret == ...) break; if (ret == some_other_condition) break; // additional termination conditions.... // do exactly one thing }